Hob
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.94/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 5,639
- Critics
- 76 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.3h
- To 100%
- 17h 1.7x the story
- Finish
- 2% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 November 2023
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
72 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 6 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ANIMAL WELL ($17.49, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Greak: Memories of Azur ($3.99, scores 53).
More about Hob
76 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Whoever designed the world, with it's interconnected landmasses, is a genius. Making sure every piece connected with the next piece as you travel through your journey must have taken a lot of work, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will admit though, that there were times I wasn't 100% sure where to go, but after a few minutes of exploration and checking the map again, I was able to figure it. I would have also...
2 more reviews
The puzzles and world are amazing. I loved the in world story telling and the freedom to figure out what to do on your own.
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Hob scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/404680/hobReviews 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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.