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2015 · Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building

How long isPlanetbase?

by Madruga Works

24 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 10 hours and 56 hours

A bargain: 62¢ an hour, cheaper than 74 of 82 colony sims here.

Does Planetbase hold up?

Grows on people

Do the first two hours of Planetbase tell you?

In the first two hours40%recommend it

After that81%recommend it

18 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 24 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 10 hours and 56 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 10,500 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 67% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 93% at 200–500 hours.

4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 40% of those recommend it. After the window, 81% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 89% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 12 hours in.

When would you get there?

3weeks

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 24 hours on Saturday, November 14.

Half of its reviewers had played between 10 and 56 hours: Oct 31 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.

Is Planetbase worth it?

Is Planetbase worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    2.5× the hours of a typical colony sim, for the same money

  • Liked

    81% recommend it after the refund windowmost colony sims: 87%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 24 hours come to 62¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 81% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 62¢ an hour, Planetbase is cheaper per hour than 74 of 82 colony sims here: the typical one of 82 colony sims here charges $1.54, so the same $14.99 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 (colony sims) 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.

Would you like Planetbase?

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

All 30 games like Planetbase, 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 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. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.