Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement

Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement

Skip · Narrative · 2012

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 12, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Cost per hour▼
$3.56/hr
Reviews▼
64% of 567
Genre rank
Top 91% Narrative

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
1.4h
To 100%
1.7h 1.2x the story

Price and sales

Sales
94 on record
Typical cut
85% off
Steam low
$0.49 March 2015
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
59% of its genre
Better reviewed
8% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

94 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

It is less well reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Through Abandoned: The Underground City ($5.99, scores 35) beats it on value, while it beats Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse (Episode 1) ($4.99, scores 0).

More about Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement

Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 196 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.56/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 95 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I don't think this game can really be called "good" but there is something very charming about it. The graphics and artstyle are unironically very good and clearly had some work put into them, but it's less than 90 minutes long with zero replay value so keep that in mind when deciding if you want to buy it or not. The puzzles are also usually nonsensical, but it feels kinda intentional almost, as if a lot of it is...
SpleenlazerRecommendedafter 1.5hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement is one of those titles that announces its intentions before the player even presses Start. Developed and published by Denis Galanin, also known as mif2000, it enters the modern gaming landscape not by trying to compete with technical spectacle or elaborate systems, but by deliberately rejecting them. It feels like a response to the...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13hNov 2025Read on Steam
Hamlet whispers that no shaders mean purity. I'm a happy hostage of its silence and bugs with no save.
🍀 WinteraidNot recommendedafter 5.1hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

The original puzzle adventure game based on twisted William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB graphics card, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/222160/hamlet-or-the-last-game-without-mmorpg-features-shaders-and-product-placement
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Reviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDenis Galanin (mif2000)
PublisherDenis Galanin (mif2000)
GenreNarrative
Released2012
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate