A Short Hike
Worth it · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.07.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $5.33/hr
- Reviews
- 99% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Graphics 4400 or better, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 50 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.07. The record reaches that level 43 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is the best reviewed of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Smushi Come Home ($7.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Proteus ($9.99, scores 32).
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 99 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 55 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 450 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 4,623 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
1.5 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
At 1.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
66% start to 55% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
31 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was one of the most fun gaming experiences I've ever had. The controls are solid and easy to pick up, the story is adorable, the music is comforting. There aren't any enemies, there is no battle, just Claire going for a hike to the top of the mountain to get cell signal. Adorable and memorable. End of the game warmed my heart. As the title describes, it IS short. You can probably blow through it in 2 hours or...
i enjoyed the graphics, music and story in a short hike and that's about it. the game is absolutely not build for keyboard and mouse as the controls are clunky. twice i tried to do key rebinds only to totally mess the game up forcing me to reset the game and my progress. achievements are also annoying to complete as some of them didn't pop as i achieved them (i ended up finishing the game offline so obviously those...
This game, among everything else amazing about it, has such fun flying mechanics, it really scratches the itch I have for games with free flight. The exploration feels so right, and there's so many fun little puzzles and challenges.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
A Short Hike scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1055540/a-short-hikeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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