Harthorn
Fair · Shooter · 2020
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.49/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 205 positive
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
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About the game
It's winter break 1994 and schools out at Harthorn High School, but not all is silent in its empty classrooms and dark hallways...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1070, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 34 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zombie Panic! Source (free, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION ($2.99, scores 56).
The drop-off
83% start to 45% 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
A nice little horror game for an evening. At the beginning I actually found it pretty atmospheric and I really liked the idea behind it. Unfortunately around the halfway point it slowly turns into a much more trashy horror game. Especially the Nemesis like enemy that constantly follows you felt more cliche than genuinely scary. The ending also didn't really work for me and ended up dragging the whole experience down...
2 more reviews
Great game. So fun. They knew not to give me a gun from the jump because I would've boomed him the first time I saw him. Killer = straight to dvd. Killer stole the cop's underwear btw.
Harthorn is a short story-driven horror game taking place in a high school during winter break. You're playing as the new part-time security guard aided by a radio dispatcher, a setup somewhat similar to Firewatch in how the dialogue between the two plays out and how nothing our of the ordinary happens during the first couple chapters. Even though you can take your time to familiarize yourself with your...
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Cite this score
Harthorn scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1397110/harthornReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.