2022 · Dark Fantasy · Platformer · Action-Adventure
How long isThe Darkest Tales?
by Trinity Team
7.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 3.5 hours and 14 hours
Divisive for its kind: only 73% recommend it past the refund window, reviewed worse than 169 of 183 metroidvanias here.
67% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
76% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
Do the first two hours of The Darkest Tales tell you?
In the first two hours60%recommend it
After that73%recommend it
16 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 7.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3.5 hours and 14 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 952 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
15% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 60% of those recommend it. After the window, 73% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 79% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6 hours in.
When would you get there?
8days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 7.5 hours on Friday, October 30.
Half of its reviewers had played between 3.5 and 14 hours: Oct 26 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.
Is The Darkest Tales worth it?
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One hour, at list price
The Darkest Tales
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 7.5 h
- metroidvania rate
- $1.67/h
- 7.5 h at that rate
- $12
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Darkest Tales worth it? Probably not.
Pricey per hour
A typical metroidvania gives 1.6× the hours for the money
Mixed
73% recommend it after the refund windowmost metroidvanias: 89%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 7.5 hours come to $2.67 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 73% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $2.67 an hour, The Darkest Tales costs more per hour than 149 of 183 metroidvanias here: the typical one of 183 metroidvanias here charges $1.67.
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 (metroidvanias) 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 The Darkest Tales?
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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 The Darkest Tales
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
The Darkest Tales, but twice the hours, and even better loved
Loved · 96%
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
The Darkest Tales, but side-scrolling, and pixel art
Loved · 93%
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 The Darkest Tales: a kind of game it is that The Darkest Tales is not, a feature its tags carry that The Darkest Tales's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.