Hook 2
BANGER · Short indie · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.4h 1.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.14/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 774 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
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
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
A minimal, relaxing puzzle about unhooking hooks — now with an extra dimension.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card with 1GB memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 40 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Hook ($2.99, scores 84).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $4.08.
More about Hook 2
2 of the 322 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 552 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 00:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
As soon as you reach lvl. 92 you earn the one achievement. Took me just under 2 hours to complete and i'm a slow thinker. :D This game has dark mode. A potato could run this game. An improvement compared to the 1st game, overall.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Hook 2 scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1871310/hook-2Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.