2013 · Story Rich · Choices Matter · Stealth
How long isThe Novelist?
by Orthogonal Games
2.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 1.5 hours and 4 hours
The Novelist among the 133 interactive fiction games here
The whole tier list#34
of 133
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 48%
- got past 2 hours
- +13 on the kind's 35%
- 1%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 3%
- 75%
- launched it
- +27 on the kind's 49%
- 73
- libraries own it
- 1 in 34 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Less loved than most: only 81% recommend it past the refund window, reviewed worse than 158 of 189 interactive fiction games here.
60% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
80% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
Do the first two hours of The Novelist tell you?
In the first two hours60%recommend it
After that81%recommend it
25 in 100 said no: 13 after the window had closed, 12 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 2.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1.5 hours and 4 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,040 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
30% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 60% of those recommend it. After the window, 81% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 53% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2 hours in.
When would you get there?
3days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 2.5 hours on Tuesday, November 17.
Half of its reviewers had played between 1.5 and 4 hours: Nov 16 to Nov 18 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 Novelist worth it?
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The Novelist
- Steam list price, US
- $4.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 2.5 h
- interactive fiction game rate
- $2.60/h
- 2.5 h at that rate
- $6
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Novelist worth it? Yes.
Good value
1.3× the hours of a typical interactive fiction game, for the same money
Liked
81% recommend it after the refund windowmost interactive fiction games: 91%
Gets played
76% of owners here have played itmost interactive fiction games: 49%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $4.99, the typical player's 2.5 hours come to $2.00 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 81% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $2.00 an hour, The Novelist is cheaper per hour than 126 of 189 interactive fiction games here: the typical one of 189 interactive fiction games here charges $2.60, so the same $4.99 buys 1.3× 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 (interactive fiction games) 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 The Novelist today?
On PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPC2014
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Novelist 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 The Novelist?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Novelist, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Novelist 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.
@ravage holds this page
- 1st
@ravage4.1 h - 2nd
@foxworks1.9 h - 3rdopen– – –
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
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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 Novelist: a kind of game it is that The Novelist is not, a feature its tags carry that The Novelist's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.