2019 · Online Co-Op · Third-Person Shooter · Co-op
How long isEARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5?
by SANDLOT
26 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 8 hours and 62 hours
Long for a third-person shooter: 26 hours for the typical player, longer than 94 of 101 third-person shooters here.
69% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
94% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
96% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
95% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
96% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
97% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
97% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
96% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
Does EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 hold up?
Holds steady

At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500 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.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/earth-defense-force-5#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/earth-defense-force-5/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5: Holds up. At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500 hours played."></a>Do the first two hours of EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 tell you?
In the first two hours69%recommend it
After that96%recommend it
13 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 7 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 26 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 8 hours and 62 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 11,600 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 94% and 97% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
6% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 69% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 66% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 7.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
4weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 26 hours on Sunday, November 15.
Half of its reviewers had played between 8 and 62 hours: Oct 28 to Dec 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.
Is EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 worth it?
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One hour, at list price
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
- Steam list price, US
- $59.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 26 h
- third-person shooter rate
- $2.50/h
- 26 h at that rate
- $65
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 worth it? Yes.
Fair price
About what a typical third-person shooter charges: $2.31 an hour
Loved
96% recommend it after the refund windowmost third-person shooters: 84%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $59.99, the typical player's 26 hours come to $2.31 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 costs about what the typical one of 101 third-person shooters here charges $2.50.
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 (third-person shooters) 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 EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 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.
What did people here do with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5?
1 in 696
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.
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