Over The Hills And Far Away
Fair · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.9h 2.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.10/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 208 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
The War of 1812. Northwest Frontier. William Aubrey, a rogue redcoat of the once-glorious 41st Regiment of Foot, is on the run. Wounded and tired, he seeks shelter during a thunderstorm inside an abandoned barn. But when he gets there, he finds he’s not alone...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1366x768, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
45 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, What Comes After ($4.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55).
The drop-off
66% start to 40% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Lovely story and intriguing story. It's boring at first but it gets interesting the more the story progresses. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants a short read. I believe my actual gameplay is less than 3 hrs as I did leave the game running while I ate dinner.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Over The Hills And Far Away scores 61/100 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/396860/over-the-hills-and-far-awayReviews 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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.