Hookah Haze
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $17.99. A BANGER at $4.47, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2024 (lowest $8.99, Mar 2026).
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $5.80/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($10.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($8.99)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
It's the year 2xxx. The inexperienced Toru Sumiki lands a job managing Hookah Haze, a new hookah lounge on the outskirts of Akihabara, where they meet three eccentric girls. The story unfolds as the girls gradually open up to them, connecting through their fondness for hookah...
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago. $4.47 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mutazione ($19.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Happy Game ($14.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data puts 53 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 396 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 192 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.1 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 53% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
beautiful game, decent story but the translation feels kinda off. sure it's probably way more natural in japanese, but it honestly turned me off the story a bit. characters/lore are pretty mid. really chill game tho, music is great and the achievements are super easy. i'd say get it on sale if you like cozy games and smoke culture.
I'm so obsessed with this VN! The art style & characters are super super cute. I love the story that delves into deeper, darker topics. The UI is super cool to me, I think it's so unique. I love the attention to detail with the hookah (I'm sorry Amu for giving you flavours you didn't want... I wanted to try collecting all the flavours somehow... XD)! I can definitely recommend this VN if you want to play a cute game...
A brief but emotionally dense VN about forgiving oneself A game with a strong focus on the narrative aspect; Interesting, cast and setting. Features gorgeous artwork and a superb soundtrack. Even if what it has to offer on the gameplay side is a rather straightforward gameloop and fairly simple story path-branch... I strongly believe does it's job. It's really fun. Enough to warranting a recommendation on my books...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hookah Haze scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2470300/hookah-hazeReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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