Mr. Sun's Hatbox
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $2.58/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Mr Sun’s Hatbox is a slapstick, roguelite platformer about getting the job done at all costs. Upgrade your HQ, your team, and your tools so you can take on increasingly dangerous (and ridiculous) missions, wearing hats with amazing (or questionable) potential.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
February 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. It has been discounted 35 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 29 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vagante ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ ($16.49, scores 47).
None of the 360 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
62% start to 1% 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
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fun game. Tight gameplay. Well crafted game loop going between your base and missions. This game turned out to be nothing like I thought it would be from the screenshots. It's probably better than I imagined. It's challenging so expect to die a lot. Even if you die before you complete the level there's plenty of opportunity to send resources back to home base. They also let you choose between different difficulty...
I tried liking this game, but between enemies randomly deciding they have spotted you from off your screen with normal view, and enemies just deciding that you die now, it's just not fun.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Mr. Sun's Hatbox scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1214670/mr-sun-s-hatboxThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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