The Hive
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 439 positive
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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
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
About the game
The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 / AMD Radeon HD 7750 or better, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 108 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gladiator Guild Manager ($4.94, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold: Warlords ($39.99, scores 13).
More about The Hive
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
45% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 22:11 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A very well made indie game, I love the idea of a insectoid hivemind in a fantasy setting instead of a sci-fi setting for once, using magic and artifacts while still being completely insectoid and swarm based. All around a very good game, though I think it would do well to add a skirmish against AI to help with the replayability aspect
2 more reviews
This game INSANE difficulty is better balanced that Tempest Rising. Need any more reason? It is almost cost as much as Beyond All Reason. But do you have loot there?
This game is honesly so good. I remember watching someone play this game back in my childhood and I loved it. I eventually found this game again and it was as beautiful as I lost it. I havent gotten very far but its so fun. The lore is also quite fun. I cant wait to finish it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Hive scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/325730/the-hiveReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.