The Test: Hypothesis Rising
BANGER · RPG · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.6h
- Value
- $3.32/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($1.59)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($1.19)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1024x768 or better video resolution in High Color mode, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.19. That was May 2026. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sultan's Game ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 56).
3 of the 442 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 5,575 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 96 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Test: Hypothesis Rising scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1282200/the-test-hypothesis-risingReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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