Hook
Worth it · Short indie · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
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- 97% positive
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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.
HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- 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.
The value story
November 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.66. 110 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, LYNE ($2.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats klocki ($2.99, scores 83).
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.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Hook scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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/hookThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Sep 24.
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