Zero Punctuation: Hatfall - Hatters Gonna Hat Edition

Zero Punctuation: Hatfall - Hatters Gonna Hat Edition

Fair · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.1h
Value
$1.61/hr
Reviews
85% of 302 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3274 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Engagement17% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$1.61/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Refunds0 of 64 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

HATFALL is a high-energy game of skill and hat-wearing born from Zero Punctuation, the hit online video series from The Escapist, created by the man behind ZP, Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 512MB of video memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 4 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 468 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Guacamelee! Gold Edition ($14.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats The Cat Games ($1.99, scores 66).

More about Zero Punctuation: Hatfall - Hatters Gonna Hat Edition

Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.

At 3.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

90% start to 17% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

The Hatfall game, created by Yahtzee Croshaw, retains the fundamental idea in its Steam version: players must catch a falling hat while navigating through decoys and hazards, with the challenge escalating as more characters fill the screen. This version introduces countdown mechanics, mini-games, achievements, and cosmetic hats. -Humor Atmosphere: The game offers humor and variety, featuring Easter eggs that...
ツ バンビ グリーングーバーRecommendedafter 9.1hJan 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Its not much more than a novelty, with the quality/depth of a Newgrounds game. Might be worth it if you want to support Fully Ramb-I mean Zero Punctuation.
RedoTheUndoRecommendedafter 3.2hAug 2024Read on Steam
For $5, it's a pretty fun toy, especially if you're a Zero Punctuation/Fully Ramblomatic fan.
Intellectual_BA | xygaming.comRecommendedafter 3.9hMar 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Zero Punctuation: Hatfall - Hatters Gonna Hat Edition scores 67/100 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/403700/zero-punctuation-hatfall-hatters-gonna-hat-edition
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperBen 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
PublisherAddicting Games
GenreAction
Released2015
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements18