Hollow Cocoon
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2023.
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $1.97/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($8.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($7.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or greater, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.
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
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. 14 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 61 at list, 72 today.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Supernormal ($7.99, scores 30) and THRESHOLD ($4.99, scores 60).
5 of the 365 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
3.8 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
54% start to 3% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hollow Cocoon scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2414630/hollow-cocoonReviews 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 1.
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