The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Skip · Shooter · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 65% of 3,306
- Genre rank
- Top 81% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.7h
- To 100%
- 7.1h 4.2x the story
- Achievements
- 11
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.19 April 2015
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 20% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
18% start to 6% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
78 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Scorn ($39.99, scores 28) outscores it, and so does Witch Hunt ($9.99, scores 56). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,953 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 69 percent of everything written about it.
1.7 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 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
What's the point of a flashlight if you can't make anything out in these graphics anyway?
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Generic Unity horror game where you avoid a monster while aimlessly walking around collecting pages. Underwhelming gameplay with an underwhelming monster - it can't even pathfind properly.
The Hat Man: Shadow Ward, developed and published by Game Mechanics LLC, is a first-person psychological horror game that takes inspiration from the folklore of the shadow people and the urban legend of the mysterious Hat Man. Set within the crumbling halls of the Canton State Insane Asylum, the game places players in the role of a desperate parent searching for their missing daughter, Virginia. The premise is...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Hat Man: Shadow Ward scores 13/100 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/291010/the-hat-man-shadow-wardReviews 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.