Alien Hallway
Skip · Shooter · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible or better video card with pixelshader 2.0, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Players measure stamina with a never-ending stream of green creatures within the borders of a special military mission.
What drives the score
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 $0.49, set in October 2018. It has been discounted 47 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 27 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 78 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. X-Morph: Defense ($19.99, scores 68) and Sanctum 2 ($14.99, scores 82) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 18 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
2.2 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
81% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 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
A very cautious recommendation, this will not suit everyone. And an X-Com like it is not! So, what is it then? Well it's almost an idle clicker and almost an auto-battler with VERY light strategy and tactics, basically picking which units to throw in the, uh, 2D hallway full of aliens and deciding who next to allocate power up points to. It is very basic and pretty grindy. I suspect that many people might even say...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Alien Hallway scores 18/100 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/98900/alien-hallwayThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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