Missing Hiker

Missing Hiker

Fair · Narrative · 2023

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Length
0.3h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
85% positive
Length
0.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
85%
3,769 reviews, as of Sep 25
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 or AMD Radeon 6870, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.

Missing Hiker is a short indie horror game, where your brother Ethan went missing while hiking and you need to find him.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Mimic Search (free, scores 63) and We Went Back (free, scores 59) both outscore it.

3 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 30, 14:48 UTC.

Players

3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 14:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Missing Hiker scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 3,769 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2250090/missing-hiker
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 25.

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Details

DeveloperGemezl
PublisherGemezl
GenreNarrative
Released2023
Achievements3