Hack 'n' Slash
Skip · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $13.37.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.97/hr
- Reviews▼
- 53% of 934
- Critics
- 73 players 20 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 100% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.5h
- To 100%
- 5.6h 1.2x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.33 November 2015
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 25% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 66 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42) outscores it, and so does Trine Enchanted Edition ($14.99, scores 78). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Hack 'n' Slash
Critics scored it 73, but players land 20 points lower at 53 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 53 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
Not a bad concept for a game... only really works for people interested in coding/videogame development, and I'm here for that.... but the current iteration feels more like a tech demo to me than a fully finished game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i played this a while ago so my memory is hazy, but i remember enjoying it. puzzle solutions can be obtuse at times, but i think that made it more endearing. making the jump from just editing variables to editing entire chunks of the game's code (even if it was just swapping out operations) was really cool to me. doesn't deserve 58% positive reviews imo, its better than that
For a game centering around coding concepts, they certainly skipped the debugging part. This game tries to have a plan in place if you do something that break code, by returning you to the beginning of a room. However, there are many times where a plan is not in place and the game softlocks and even hardlocks you, forcing you to quit out of the game entirely. These ranged from enemy interactions freezing the game...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play...by the rules!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Hack 'n' Slash scores 0/100 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/246070/hack-n-slashReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.