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2015 · Management · Medical Sim · Automation

How long isBig Pharma?

by Twice Circled

12 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 4.5 hours and 32 hours

Big Pharma cover

Big Pharma among the 37 automation games here

The whole tier list
BPlayed tier

#16

of 37

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

54%
got past 2 hours
+5 on the kind's 49%
7%
past 20 hours
−11 on the kind's 18%
79%
launched it
+16 on the kind's 63%
57
libraries own it
1 in 44 of the 2,483 read here
Big Pharma ↓
#1 Factorio#37
21% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Does Big Pharma hold up?

Grows on people

Do the first two hours of Big Pharma tell you?

In the first two hours46%recommend it

After that82%recommend it

23 in 100 said no: 15 after the window had closed, 8 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 12 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4.5 hours and 32 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,940 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 58% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 92% at 20–50 hours.

14% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 46% of those recommend it. After the window, 82% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 67% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4 hours in.

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When would you get there?

12days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 12 hours on Thursday, November 26.

Half of its reviewers had played between 4.5 and 32 hours: Nov 19 to Dec 16 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.

How far do players get in Big Pharma?

Launched it 100%

Earned its most common achievement 49%

Earned a typical achievement 2.1%

How this is counted

Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.

Is Big Pharma worth it?

Is Big Pharma worth it? Mostly.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical automation game gives 1.5× the hours for the money

  • Liked

    82% recommend it after the refund windowmost automation games: 90%

  • Gets played

    79% of owners here have played itmost automation games: 59%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $24.99, the typical player's 12 hours come to $2.08 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 82% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $2.08 an hour, Big Pharma costs more per hour than 73 of 95 automation games here: the typical one of 95 automation games here charges $1.42.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (automation games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play Big Pharma today?

Almost anywhere

PC, Xbox Series, Switch, PS4 and 1 more.

  1. todayPC2015
  2. todayPS42019
  3. todaySwitch2019
  4. todayXbox One2024in Big Pharma + Bio Inc. Redemption: Symptoms and Treatment Bundle
  5. todayXbox Series2024in Big Pharma + Bio Inc. Redemption: Symptoms and Treatment Bundle
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Big Pharma 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 Big Pharma?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Big Pharma, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Big Pharma 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.

@chlo holds this page

  1. 1st@chlo19 h
  2. 2nd@le-venin-noir43 min
  3. 3rd@darthvader75 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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  2. 2

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  3. 3

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  4. 4

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  5. 5

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    Big Pharma, but in space, and three times the hours

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  6. 6

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    Big Pharma, but co-op

    Mixed · 73%Games like Good Company

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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 Big Pharma: a kind of game it is that Big Pharma is not, a feature its tags carry that Big Pharma'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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