Hob
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.3h
- Value
- $1.94/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2GB of VRAM; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 500 Series / AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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 $3.99. That was November 2023. 71 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ANIMAL WELL ($17.49, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Moss VR ($19.99, scores 57).
76 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 559 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 383 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
79% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 10.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
What to say about Hob... Well, first, I'm bad at short reviews so if that's your jam, you're reading the wrong review. Second, yes, the biggest issue with this game is the incredibly vague directions on what to do next to progress in certain locations. (Personally I haven't run into more than a small handful of glitches that are few and far between, and jumps have never been an issue) Big Pros: -The art style is so...
This is a fun game with some mostly easy combat, decent puzzles, and secrets to find. Saves were generous. Fast travel was easy to use. Upgrades were fun to track down. A couple of times there was some frustration around what to do next, but with some patience I got there on my own.
This has really been one of the nicest games I ever played and I'd say nice really is the best word for it. It absolutely excells at beauty and other than that, it's just been gentle. yes, there's cozy but it's on zelda level. The exploration is the real focus and it's so good at that. Essentially it's the perfect game to relax with. The game I'd really compare this too would be ocarina of time, but with more...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Hob scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/404680/hobThe 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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