HIVESWAP: ACT 1
Worth it · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.96.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $3.20/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration). Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.19. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 43 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $4.96 BANGER line 40 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, West of Loathing ($10.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats My Friend is a Raven (free, scores 74).
1 of the 356 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 261 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
71% start to 8% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
These cutie-patooties need better friends, better parents, and some emotional support! The item combos made me feel like I was having an anyeresum, but a fun game. The characters really encompass the uncertainty of being in, like, what, 9th grade.... woof.
they should make it a crime for the last achievement needed to 100% this game be locked behind a game that doesn't even exist yet otherwise good game thanks andrew sussy
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
HIVESWAP: ACT 1 scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/623940/hiveswap-act-1Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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