Hot Lava
BANGER · Action · 2019
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 77 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 8 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 11 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, PANZER BALL ($4.99, scores 68) and Haste ($19.99, scores 76) both come in lower.
$25.65 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $19.99.
This site sampled 567 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 925 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
7.2 hours to finish it, 30 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.1 times the campaign.
Players
About 16 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Hot Lava scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/382560/hot-lavaReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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