Horror Story: Hallowseed

Horror Story: Hallowseed

Skip · Other · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 12, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
3.1h
Value
$6.45/hr
Reviews
64% of 356 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement7% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$6.45/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews64% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 65% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 259 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Horror Story: Hallowseed is a story-driven psychological horror game. An obscure event causes two of your friends to disappear while you were camping in the woods. Left alone and stranded in an unknown place, you need to seek the answers about what happened, face the horror and find your friends.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 4870, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 41 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. Dollmare ($4.99, scores 86) outscores it, and so does Find Yourself ($6.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Horror Story: Hallowseed

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 259 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026.

The drop-off

55% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

First off $20 for this game is insane. Def wait for a sale. Second I have a pretty nice computer and the stutters in this game are horrible. Decent game tho if you get if for under $5. Even still I was very happy it was over lol.
OntoquasNot recommendedafter 2.9hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is not a game, it is a walking simulator with jump scares, Also no puzzle no story nothing.
DoggoNot recommendedafter 4.0hAug 2025Read on Steam
And finally I played Horror Story: Hallowseed. If I had believed the negative reviews, I would never have bought this gem. "Walk simulator with jumpscares" kiss my ass. Hallowseed is a game that I see has been unfairly treated by malicious reviews, with the intention of harming the developer. You can see how much work Jeff Winner put into this game, and that's not what you see in these devs nowadays who only care...
BeckerRecommendedafter 3.0hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Horror Story: Hallowseed scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1151250/horror-story-hallowseed
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Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJeff Winner
PublisherFulqrum Publishing
GenreOther
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12