Hue
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 4.7h
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GT 610 (1024 MB) or equivalent | Radeon HD 6450 (512 MB) or equivalent, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
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.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.24. That was December 2017. 78 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off still sits 33 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 65. The current cut is what makes it a 89.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) and Nihilumbra ($7.99, scores 55), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $4.72. It costs $2.99.
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 14 percent of players ever finish it. On a 4.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 398 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Hue scores 89/100 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/383270/hueThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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