MONKEY KING: HERO IS BACK
Skip · RPG · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $34.99.
- Length
- 8.9h
- Value
- $3.93/hr
- Reviews
- 47% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660/GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon HD 7770, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in October 2018. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 12 in the 8 years tracked, about 18 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Niffelheim ($19.99, scores 20) outscores it, and so does Immortals Fenyx Rising ($3.99, scores 34). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 155 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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MONKEY KING: HERO IS BACK scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/967240/monkey-king-hero-is-backThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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