Hammerfight
Skip · Action · 2009
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirectX 8.0 compatible with 64 Mb VRAM, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Hammerfight is about 2D battles of flying machines equipped with various slashing, piercing and blunt weaponry.A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall!
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
Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. One Finger Death Punch ($4.99, scores 97) and Airscape - The Fall of Gravity ($4.99, scores 63) both outscore it.
The main story runs 4.2 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 2.8 times as long.
It is still busy. 2 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
Players
2 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
It's as straightforward as a game concept gets. Very well done. A timeless classic.
Summary For the price of free, Hammerfight is absolutely worth a try. It is laden with small but numerous problems, from poor gameplay balance to an interesting-but-shallow story to the game simply being old, from 2009. Better get used to the low resolution. But what it doesn't lack is charm that makes you wish there was a more modern version of this same game. According to How Long to Beat, a playthrough of...
Far from perfect, but easily one of the most unique game out there in terms of gameplay. Once it clicks, you get pulled into decimating your foes with a single swing of your mouse. Everyone should at least try, since it's free. P.S. Don't be afraid to go nuts with the sensitivity :), the game gets easier
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Hammerfight scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/41100/hammerfightThe 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 4.
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