Bob Was Hungry

Bob Was Hungry

Fair · Multiplayer · 2015

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
7.2h
Value
$1.39/hr
Reviews
88% of 623 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (90% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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

Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.39/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 135 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Bob Was Hungry is a challenging precision platformer with many levels designed to truly test your platforming skills. Play alone or online with 2-8 player co-op and make your way through countless perils to feed your bob!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 768 MB / Shader Model 2.0, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 94 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 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 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hot Lava ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Ben and Ed ($9.99, scores 55).

More about Bob Was Hungry

Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

62% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Bob Was Hungry is a fast-paced and unforgiving precision platformer developed and published by Shorebound Studios that challenges players to master its demanding mechanics through relentless trial and error. It's a game that makes no attempt to hide its brutality, instead embracing difficulty as its defining feature. Beneath its simple art style and quirky premise lies a complex test of timing, precision, and...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hOct 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
My gambling addict friend said if I post a review and it gets 150 likes and 50 Awards that he will buy me a case of beer, some vodka and 1 kg of lemon So im just gonna leave this here. Мой друг-игроман сказал, что если я опубликую отзыв и он наберет 150 лайков и 50 наград, он купит мне ящик пива, немного водки и 1 кг лимона, так что я просто оставлю это здесь.
storm666Recommendedafter 5.2hSep 2023Read on Steam
The game start off as easy jump platformer game and it's really a lot of fun to play with your friends. The difficulty of the game keep increasing along the way to the end which frustated me and my friends while attempting to finish this game. There is a lot of one chance level where from the start to finish you shall not make any mistake or you will have to start the level over. Because of that, you will die a lot...
MeduMeguRecommendedafter 12h18 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Bob Was Hungry scores 64/100 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/343560/bob-was-hungry
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperShorebound Studios
PublisherShorebound Studios
GenreMultiplayer
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements38