Hard Reset Extended Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $2.11/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
December 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 69 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. On the same math Dystopia (free, scores 63) and SUPERHOT ($24.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 9 points higher at 82 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 511 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 901 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
7.1 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 3% 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
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Hard Reset is basically: kill ♥♥♥♥, get better weapons, kill more ♥♥♥♥, and occasionally question why the enemy designers hate you. It's another one of those DOOM-style FPS games where the objective is refreshingly simple: run around, shoot everything that moves, collect better weapons and gear, and try not to get blown up by the enemies that apparently have no concept of self-preservation. Speaking of which, the...
Pretty awesome game! it's an oldie? hell yeah but it rocks. You've 2 guns, the assault rifle aka (CLN Modular Assault Rifle) and plasma gun aka (N.R.G. weapon). You can add nade launcher, zoom, change the range, more magazine, more power for the blast of your plasma gun, etc. Smth excellent is that you don't need to reload at all, when you kill the enemies that are plentiful such as, robdoggies, gorillas, some mini...
Not the worst but I don't see myself playing this again. The game was made some of the guys who made Painkiller a wonderful FPS from the 2000's. So my expectations were high. This game has a lot of hard spikes even normal, some areas will take multiple attempts till the enemies and your aim line up just right. I get the concept your a human taking on enemy machines so of course your at a disadvantage and they take...
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Hard Reset Extended Edition scores 49/100 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/98400/hard-reset-extended-editionThe 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 Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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