Welcome to Hanwell
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 4.1h 9.9h to 100%
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 48% of 379 positive
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
About the game
Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Perfect Vermin (free, scores 80) outscores it, and so does Zombie Panic! Source (free, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Welcome to Hanwell
Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 134 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.1 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 2.4 times as long.
The drop-off
28% start to 4% 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
What players say
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1 more review, not recommended
I played this game because I didn't realize Beyond Hanwell was a sequel. So I stopped playing that, because I thought you'd have to play this one. you don't. I like that the main areas don't have combat. the areas look okay. but the music isn't programmed to fade out at all so it just continues on and on as loud as possible, the actual combat on the street sucks because you can block but there's no indication of...
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Cite this score
Welcome to Hanwell scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/611750/welcome-to-hanwellReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.