Hook
Worth it · Short indie · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.79.
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 8,927
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Short indie
Holding it back: Length unknown
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 1
Price and sales
- Sales
- 112 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $0.66 November 2016
- Sale every
- 38d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 55% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
November 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.66. 112 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 7 ($1.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats klocki ($1.79, scores 83).
More about Hook
None of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 5,691 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 72 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Short indie game (about 4 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATI Radeon X1300/NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT/Intel HD 3000 or better, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Hook scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 4 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/367580/hookReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.