About Love, Hate and the other ones
Fair · Short indie · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.7h 6.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 845 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.91 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
About Love, Hate and the other ones is a puzzle game, in which you influence your surroundings by the force of Hate and the power of Love. Find a way through caves and ice, castles and factories, all by the might of your puzzling!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 108 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Paquerette Down the Bunburrows ($11.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats A Little to the Left ($14.99, scores 57).
More about About Love, Hate and the other ones
Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 222 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
A simple puzzle game whose rules are quick to learn. You control two characters. One represents love, and the other represents hate. Both send their emotions to other characters, who react to them in different ways. They may hide, stand up, follow you, run away, and so on. Your goal is to reach the level end button with one of these two characters. If I were to summarize most levels, the main objective could be...
1 more review, not recommended
Short puzzle game without story or anything special going for it really. I liked the simplistic art style. The soundtrack was lovely at times, but annoying at others. Specially the characters repeating "I love you" and "I hate you" got old quickly. Most levels were intuitive and easy. Sometimes my brain just went "nope" and I had to stare at the level for a while to find the solution obvious. Some levels break when...
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Cite this score
About Love, Hate and the other ones scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/277680/about-love-hate-and-the-other-onesReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.