Hiveswap Friendsim
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $7.22/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any DirectX-compatible card, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You’ve crash landed on a dangerous alien planet with no food, medicine, or prospects, but you do know one thing—you are absolutely desperate for friendship.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. 30 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 51 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DOKA 2 KISHKI EDITION ($2.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper 3D Assassin: Free to Play (free, scores 13).
This site sampled 332 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 368 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.8 hours. Doing everything runs 18, 10 times as long.
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is very explicitly a friendship sim and not a dating sim, yet I can't help but be in love with at least half of the girls in the cast. The writing in most of the chapters is just that good. In terms of story navigation, this is kind of like a baby's first VN, but when it comes to VNs I'm basically baby so that's good for me - I just like Homestuck lol. And speaking of which, I wish James Roach could just take...
Despite the mixed art style and writing I absolutely adore friendsim. It perfectly captures that feeling of going out at night and trying to make friends in an often hostile world. Idk if I can recommend it to nonhomestucks but I adore this game.
Not as interesting as Pesterquest. Played the previous games in the franchise, not read the source material. There's simply too many characters and a good half of them are very uninteresting and boring to read about. Couple it with the fact that there seems to be no good throughline for all these 30 characters and it just feels like opening 30 books in Skyrim and reading them. Yes the art is cute and some music is...
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Cite this score
Hiveswap Friendsim scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/833040/hiveswap-friendsimReviews 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 27, price as of Sep 30.
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