Hostil
Fair · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.5h 0.7h to 100%
- Value
- $5.98/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 264 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 466 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
Hostil is a short emotional interactive tale about a young astronaut who has crashed on a extremely dangerous planet. No one will come to rescue him and his only hope is to move forward.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Standard, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 54 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 67 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Through Abandoned: The Underground City ($0.71, scores 49).
More about Hostil
Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 50% 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
A beautiful artsy and touching game. You can die in this but there's always a per-scene rewind option. It's not a classic point-and-click adventure game, more like a hidden-object game/visual novel. If you like emotional narratives and sci-fi then get this. Recommended.
2 more reviews
Hostil manages to tell a very bittersweet story that feels very complete given it's short gameplay (roughly an hour). The art design is very beautiful and it is very easy to figure out how to do things to progress to the next scene without a real tutorial. There manages to be some little things to solve which can get hard, but they're mostly found in the later game and if you get stuck on one there are some helpful...
I got to experience crash landing on a planet and tried to find parts to get my ship functioning again. While embarking on this futile hunt and realizing my impending doom, I got to aid the planet which shared my own similar fate. I saved the planet, and discovered the sweet hereafter really is just that: sweet. I did this all in about 60 minutes . . . in my Mike Brady pajamas.
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Cite this score
Hostil scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/726200/hostilReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.