Hide and Shriek
Fair · Action · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Iris HD5200 pro or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!
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
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SCP: Secret Laboratory (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats BrainBread 2 (free, scores 37).
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 82 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
It is still busy. 8 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
39% start to 1% 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
Players
8 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
love it If the devs would take care of this and properly market it it could be big
Challenge your friend really addicting game, every match is different duo to stone changes, every game is strategical and luck based, and make sure you spy on foe
It is a fun 5-20 minutes if you want to kill some time with a friend. Would be awesome if there were bigger maps for more people at once.
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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Hide and Shriek scores 59/100 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/480430/hide-and-shriekThe 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 17.
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