The Happyhills Homicide

The Happyhills Homicide

Worth it · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
1h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
95% positive
Length
1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
95%
2,240 reviews, as of Sep 26
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory. Windows only.

Welcome to Happyhills, the town where you can indulge your deepest desires, make your wildest dreams come true, and slaughter anyone in your path. In this case, all three of these are the same. Welcome the citizens of Happyhills in your way!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, BirdGut (free, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Krypta FM (free, scores 76).

3 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:49 UTC.

Players

3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
The Happyhills Homicide scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 2,240 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3278760/the-happyhills-homicide
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.

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Details

DeveloperCopperbolt
PublisherCopperbolt
GenreNarrative
Released2024