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2015 · Sci-fi · Flight · Futuristic

How long isAX:EL?

by Alex Piola

2 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 45 minutes and 4.5 hours

AX:EL cover
How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 2 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 45 minutes and 4.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,230 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

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When would you get there?

2days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 2 hours on Monday, November 16.

Half of its reviewers had played between 45 minutes and 4.5 hours: tonight to Nov 19 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in AX:EL?

The filter

Moonlight Rider

10 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Collector and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. BuilderVisit the hub.−5545% hold it
  3. Spy HunterComplete mission 1−540% hold it
  4. DiverComplete Mission 240% hold it
  5. Stealth GunnerComplete Mission 3−337% hold it
  6. CollectorComplete Mission 4−235% hold it
  7. Moonlight RiderComplete Mission 5Filtered −1025% hold it
  8. Reef PioneerComplete Mission 625% hold it
  9. InterceptorComplete Mission 725% hold it
  10. Tough GuyComplete Mission 825% hold it
  11. BastionComplete Mission 925% hold it
  12. HeroComplete Mission 1025% hold it
How this is counted

45% of the players who launched AX:EL hold Builder, its first story achievement on Steam, and 25% hold Hero, its last. The steepest drop comes between Collector (35%) and Moonlight Rider (25%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Where can I play AX:EL today?

On PC

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. todayPC2014
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines AX:EL came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like AX:EL?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like AX:EL, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long AX:EL would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Nobody holds this page yet

  1. 1st@eltorga1.5 h
  2. 2nd@foxworks1.2 h
  3. 3rd@tyr1 min

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

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    AX:EL, but faster

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  2. 2

    Project Wingman

    AX:EL, but in VR, and six times the hours

    Loved · 94%Games like Project Wingman

  3. 3

    SpaceEngine

    AX:EL, but open world, and three times the hours

    Loved · 96%

  4. 4

    Bright Memory: Infinite

    AX:EL, but a first-person shooter, and gorier

    Loved · 92%Games like Bright Memory: Infinite

  5. 5

    Chorus

    AX:EL, but in space, and six times the hours

    Liked · 82%Games like Chorus

  6. 6

    STAR WARS Starfighter

    AX:EL, but in space, and more divisive

    Divisive · 56%

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from AX:EL: a kind of game it is that AX:EL is not, a feature its tags carry that AX:EL's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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