2013 · Exploration · Walking Simulator · Procedural Generation
How long isProteus?
by Ed Key and David Kanaga
50 minutes
for the typical playerhalf of them between 25 minutes and 1.5 hours
Proteus among the 109 walking sims here
The whole tier list#97
of 109
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 4%
- got past 2 hours
- −32 on the kind's 36%
- 1%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 1%
- 38%
- launched it
- −18 on the kind's 56%
- 72
- libraries own it
- 1 in 34 of the 2,472 read here
Steep for its length: $11.99 an hour, dearer than 180 of 182 walking sims here.
72% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
94% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
Do the first two hours of Proteus tell you?
In the first two hours72%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
24 in 100 said no: 1 after the window had closed, 23 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 50 minutes or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 25 minutes and 1.5 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,810 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
81% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 72% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 4% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 35 minutes in.
When would you get there?
Tonight
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 50 minutes tonight.
Half of its reviewers had played between 25 minutes and 1.5 hours: tonight to Nov 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 Proteus worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Proteus
- Steam list price, US
- $9.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 50 min
- walking sim rate
- $3.99/h
- 50 min at that rate
- $3
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Proteus worth it? Probably not.
Pricey per hour
A typical walking sim gives 3× the hours for the money
Loved
95% recommend it after the refund windowmost walking sims: 89%
Often left unplayed
37% of owners here have played itmost walking sims: 62%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 50 minutes come to $11.99 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $11.99 an hour, Proteus costs more per hour than 180 of 182 walking sims here: the typical one of 182 walking sims here charges $3.99.
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 (walking 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.
Where can I play Proteus today?
On PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- PS32013
- PS Vita2013
- todayPC2013
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Proteus 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 Proteus?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Proteus, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Proteus 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.
Nobody holds this page yet
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 Proteus?
1 in 3,630
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 Proteus
The Beginner's Guide
Proteus, but built by hand, and story-rich
Liked · 88%Games like The Beginner's Guide
The Path
Proteus, but a psychological horror game, and four times the hours
Mixed · 79%Games like The Path
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 Proteus: a kind of game it is that Proteus is not, a feature its tags carry that Proteus's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.