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2010 · Puzzle · Music · Rhythm

How long isChime?

by Zoë Mode

6 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 2.5 hours and 16 hours

A bargain: 83¢ an hour, cheaper than 794 of 880 casual games here.

Do the first two hours of Chime tell you?

In the first two hours78%recommend it

After that97%recommend it

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 6 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 2.5 hours and 16 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 785 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

18% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 78% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do.

When would you get there?

6days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 6 hours on Monday, October 26.

Half of its reviewers had played between 2.5 and 16 hours: Oct 23 to Nov 5 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 Chime?

Launched it 100%

Earned its most common achievement 98%

Earned a typical achievement 7.4%

How this is counted

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

Is Chime worth it?

Is Chime worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    2.8× the hours of a typical casual game, for the same money

  • Loved

    97% recommend it after the refund windowmost casual games: 92%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $4.99, the typical player's 6 hours come to 83¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 83¢ an hour, Chime is cheaper per hour than 794 of 880 casual games here: the typical one of 880 casual games here charges $2.29, so the same $4.99 buys 2.8× 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 (casual games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, 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.

Would you like Chime?

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

Games like Chime

All 30 games like Chime, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.