NightSky
Fair · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.
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
July 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 59 in the 14 years tracked, about 12 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 12 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Trine Enchanted Edition ($14.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Type:Rider ($4.99, scores 48).
78 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
2.6 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
14% start to 2% 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
What players say
Very fun game, has 2 different modes both with good difficulty curves for people that don't play many puzzle/platformer games. Or I'm just dumb, lol.
another nifflas banger. even all these years later i still find myself coming back to this one just to play a few levels, super chill soundtrack, really pretty visuals, lots of fun gameplay ideas. can't recommend this one enough
This is ASMR physics in a game's disguise. That extremely soothing feel you get while playing it is simply priceless! Buy it at full price, the game deserves it totally!
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.
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NightSky scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/99700/nightskyThe 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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