Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

Skip · Strategy · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$13.75Fair

Length
8.5h 14.2h to 100%
Value
$2.35/hr
Reviews
81% of 424 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.75 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3 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

Raising the score
Engagement12% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.35/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 365 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

About the game

A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 760 or equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Puzzle Agent 2 ($4.99, scores 71) outscores it, and so does Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer ($19.99, scores 70). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 365 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026.

The drop-off

67% start to 12% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

You have two chickens inside of you: Santino "Sonny" Featherland and Martin "Marty" MacChicken. I love the Chicken Police, and noir investigations. This game was great in terms of personal development for all characters and the dialog writing is really pleasant. Graphics are good, lots of work in the characters, the voice acting and their costumes. However, I knew, as a "Noir" story, there are things that will be a...
CrocodilskiRecommendedafter 14hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Dear developers of Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! I will, of course, leave a positive review for the game, because overall I genuinely enjoy the Chicken Police series. However, the resolution of the story in this game is just awful! The entire plotline from the middle of Chapter 3 onward is packed with weird, questionable decisions made by the characters. The dialogue feels bland, dull, and ultimately meaningless ...
king.shimaganRecommendedafter 32hAug 2026Read on Steam
I randomly stumbled upon the first game on PS+ (when I used to have it) and thought the game looked charming so I gave it a go. I fell in love with the world, style, voice acting, writing, music and story! Into the HIVE did everything the first game did but better! It even added a bunch of fun minigames throughout and had me engaged from start to finish. If you like mystery games with quirky and witty writing and a...
ShinySeabassRecommendedafter 12hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2362090/chicken-police-into-the-hive
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+4
Critics77
Players81
Metacritic critics · 424 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThe Wild Gentlemen
PublisherJoystick Ventures
GenreStrategy
Released2024
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28