GUIDES
Working out what a game is worth
Short, opinionated guides on the one question this whole site answers: is a game worth the money. The numbers in them come from this site's own pipeline, and the strip below is what it sees right now.
Games scored
95,205
re-scored from fresh data several times a day
On sale right now
2%
1,744 games carry a live discount
Half off or deeper
1,003
live discounts at 50% or more, today
- Is a game worth it? How to decide before you buy
A repeatable way to answer the one question that matters.
- When Steam games actually go on sale, from 1.9 million recorded discounts
The waiting math, measured instead of guessed.
- Most people never finish the games they buy. Here are the numbers.
The hours you pay for and the hours you see are different numbers.
- Why price per hour is a bad way to judge a game
The metric that feels right and points the wrong way.
- What a review score does not tell you
Good and worth the money are two different questions.
- How the BANG Score works
One number for value, and the reasoning under it.
- Why I scored every game on Steam for bang-for-your-buck
The story of the number, including the two times I had it backwards.