Hourglass
Worth it · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.79, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2021.
- Length
- 4.9h 6.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 405 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DirectX 10 Feature Level AMD or NVIDIA Card with 1 GB VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
October 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.79. 51 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Ball ($9.99, scores 35) and NaissanceE (free, scores 64) both come in lower.
More about Hourglass
Of the 331 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
74% start to 22% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Outstanding escape puzzle adventure game UNTIL the last of the serpent area puzzles where split second timing matters more than pure logic. Not everyone has the agility to do that. I was unable to continue so will have to give up before finishing. Still, it was great fun up to that point and others with the right capabilities will be able to enjoy it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
$3 can't get you a lot these days. $3 for a sale is decent.... however, this game is filled with tedious parts of waiting, waiting, and waiting some more. running, running, running, and running some more. it's really just boring. your mind is not always engaged. you breeze through the puzzles, and when youre not, youre wondering if this undeveloped game has caused a bug where you left behind something that you...
Hourglass is a thoughtfully constructed first-person puzzle adventure that revolves around a single, elegant idea and explores it with confidence and restraint. Developed and published by Cyberwave, the game places time manipulation at the center of its identity, using it not as a spectacle but as a tool for careful reasoning and spatial planning. Rather than overwhelming the player with mechanics, Hourglass builds...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Hourglass scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1212410/hourglassReviews 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.