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2013 · Noir · Puzzle · Platformer

How long isContrast?

by Compulsion Games

4 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 3 hours and 6.5 hours

Contrast among the 218 puzzle platformers here

The whole tier list
BPlayed tier

#67

of 218

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

50%
got past 2 hours
+10 on the kind's 40%
1%
past 20 hours
about the kind's 3%
80%
launched it
+20 on the kind's 59%
88
libraries own it
1 in 28 of the 2,483 read here
Contrast ↓
#1 Portal 2#218
20% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Does Contrast hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 91% 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 Contrast tell you?

In the first two hours73%recommend it

After that93%recommend it

9 in 100 said no: 6 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 4 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3 hours and 6.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 5,730 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 91% and 96% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

11% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 73% of those recommend it. After the window, 93% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 69% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 3 hours in.

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When would you get there?

4days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 4 hours on Wednesday, November 18.

Half of its reviewers had played between 3 and 6.5 hours: Nov 17 to Nov 21 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 Contrast?

The filter

Handy Person

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

They hold This Circus Is A Disaster! and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Room 529Unlocked when the player leaves the Cabaret.−2080% hold it
  3. Punching BagUnlocked when the player lets the gangsters beat up Johnny.−1169% hold it
  4. You Broke My Finger!Unlocked when the player leaves the Cinema.−267% hold it
  5. A Carousel Of Broken DreamsUnlocked when the player completes Act I.−859% hold it
  6. This Circus Is A Disaster!Unlocked when the player goes through the circus tent toward the attractions.−455% hold it
  7. Handy PersonUnlocked when the player repairs the three attractions.Filtered −1441% hold it
  8. How'd You Get In?Unlocked when the player completes the Workshop.−536% hold it
  9. Let There Be LightUnlocked when the player completes the Lighthouse.−234% hold it
  10. FINUnlocks when the player completes the game.34% hold it
How this is counted

80% of the players who launched Contrast hold Room 529, its first story achievement on Steam, and 34% hold FIN, its last. The steepest drop comes between This Circus Is A Disaster! (55%) and Handy Person (41%).

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.

Is Contrast worth it?

Is Contrast worth it? Yes.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical puzzle platformer charges: $2.50 an hour

  • Loved

    93% recommend it after the refund windowmost puzzle platformers: 90%

  • Gets played

    79% of owners here have played itmost puzzle platformers: 61%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 4 hours come to $2.50 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Contrast costs about what the typical one of 236 puzzle platformers here charges $2.86.

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 (puzzle platformers) 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 Contrast today?

On Xbox One, PS4 and PC

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

  1. PS32013
  2. Xbox 3602013
  3. todayPS42013
  4. todayPC2013
  5. todayXbox One2014
How this is counted

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

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

@eltorga holds this page

  1. 1st@eltorga6 h
  2. 2nd@foxworks1.3 h
  3. 3rd@iia22 min

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

What did people here do with Contrast?

  • 1 in 3,631

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like Contrast

  1. 1

    Papo & Yo

    Contrast, but emotional, and surreal

    Loved · 93%Games like Papo & Yo

  2. 2

    Shady Part of Me

    Much the same as Contrast

    Loved · 94%Games like Shady Part of Me

  3. 3

    Metamorphosis

    Contrast, but first-person, and darker

    Liked · 85%

  4. 4

    Nihilumbra

    Contrast, but 2D, and harder

    Liked · 89%Games like Nihilumbra

  5. 5

    Little Nightmares

    Contrast, but a horror game, and stealthy

    Loved · 95%Games like Little Nightmares

  6. 6

    FEZ

    Contrast, but pixel art

    Loved · 93%Games like FEZ

All 30 games like Contrast, and which you already own
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 Contrast: a kind of game it is that Contrast is not, a feature its tags carry that Contrast'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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