Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 60% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia 8600GT with 512MB RAM or Radeon HD 3650 with 512MB RAM, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The ultimate edition of the jaw-dropping action-adventure game set onboard a floating city.
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The value story
October 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.24. 36 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Orcs Must Die! 2 ($3.74, scores 89) and Shadwen ($16.99, scores 36) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 17 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 283 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 597 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.6 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
77% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Hydrophobia: Prophecy, developed and published by Dark Energy Digital Ltd., is an action-adventure game that distinguishes itself through a compelling science fiction premise and an innovative approach to environmental gameplay. Set in a future devastated by overpopulation, shrinking natural resources, and social unrest, the story unfolds aboard the Queen of the World, a colossal floating city designed to shelter...
I am a 52 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing Hydrophobia: Prophecy. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son found this game at Christmas, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or...
Do not recommend this game at all. The controls are awful and buggy. And the story is dumb and not to mention achievements are glitchy. Save your money and get something else
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Hydrophobia: Prophecy scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/92000/hydrophobia-prophecyThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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