2016 · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Shooter
How long isBit Blaster XL?
1.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 40 minutes and 4 hours
Bit Blaster XL among the 175 shoot 'em ups here
The whole tier list#67
of 175
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 53%
- got past 2 hours
- +8 on the kind's 44%
- 1%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 3%
- 84%
- launched it
- +19 on the kind's 65%
- 120
- libraries own it
- 1 in 20 of the 2,453 read here
Next to it in the ranking
A bargain: $1.33 an hour, cheaper than 170 of 202 shoot 'em ups here.
96% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
97% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
98% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
97% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
Does Bit Blaster XL hold up?
Holds steady
At least 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Bit Blaster XL tell you?
In the first two hours96%recommend it
After that97%recommend it
4 in 100 said no: 1 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 1.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 40 minutes and 4 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 6,150 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 97% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
54% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 96% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 37% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1 hour in.
When would you get there?
2days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 1.5 hours on Sunday, November 15.
Half of its reviewers had played between 40 minutes and 4 hours: tonight to Nov 17 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 Bit Blaster XL?
Launched it 100%
Earned its most common achievement 62%
Earned a typical achievement 15%
How this is counted
Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.
Is Bit Blaster XL worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Bit Blaster XL
- Steam list price, US
- $1.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 1.5 h
- shoot 'em up rate
- $3.33/h
- 1.5 h at that rate
- $5
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Bit Blaster XL worth it? Yes.
A steal
2.5× the hours of a typical shoot 'em up, for the same money
Loved
97% recommend it after the refund windowmost shoot 'em ups: 91%
Gets played
84% of owners here have played itmost shoot 'em ups: 75%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $1.99, the typical player's 1.5 hours come to $1.33 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.33 an hour, Bit Blaster XL is cheaper per hour than 170 of 202 shoot 'em ups here: the typical one of 202 shoot 'em ups here charges $3.33, so the same $1.99 buys 2.5× the hours.
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 (shoot 'em ups) 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 Bit Blaster XL today?
Expanded
Play Super Bit Blaster XL, out on PC and Switch in 2020.
- todayPC2020expanded
- todaySwitch2020expanded
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Bit Blaster XL 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 Bit Blaster XL?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Bit Blaster XL, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Bit Blaster XL 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.
@tyr holds this page
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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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 Bit Blaster XL: a kind of game it is that Bit Blaster XL is not, a feature its tags carry that Bit Blaster XL's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.