HAAK
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $17.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.7h
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB), 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
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 $8.99. That was December 2024. It has been discounted 47 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UNSIGHTED ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64).
3 of the 618 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 184 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11.7 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
90% start to 4% 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
38 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 04:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Haak is a fun to play Metroidvania that perhaps doesn't entirely understand what makes a Metroidvania work. The game seems to think a modern Metroidvania should be a story driven linear platformer. There's little room in either game to explore an unfamiliar world. Especially in "Haak", you're constantly having checkpoints or timed events thrown at you. At least so far, there hasn't been many opportunities to just...
Fun game but oh boy can it be frustrating. I'm used to metroidvanias locking areas behind new skills, this is the first time where a game went "ah, but you see, you have to UPGRADE your original whip skill and that will IMPROVE your hacking skill (which isn't apparent) and that slightly increased reach is all you needed to solve this puzzle". I spent ages running around the map looking for a new skill that wasn't...
This is a fantastic Metroidvania. The amount of mobility Haak gets during his journey, through various skills, is truly amazing. Extremely responsive controls makes it a joy to play. Now, I really like exploration in my Metroidvanias, but I must say, Haak has some levels that seem to go on, and on, and on... It can get daunting after awhile. And there are LOTS of secret areas, doors, crawlspaces, chimneys, manholes...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
HAAK scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1352930/haakReviews 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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