Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews▼
- 60% of 2,396
- Critics
- 64 players 4 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 85% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.6h
- To 100%
- 7.5h 2.1x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 13
Price and sales
- Sales
- 36 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $0.24 October 2015
- Sale every
- 39d last December 2017
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 13% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
36 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 461 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! 2 ($3.74, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Zomborg ($4.99, scores 0).
More about Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 286 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 3230 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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 buy, just watch a gameplay, very buggy, glitchy, short, old game. The game must be played on 60hz screeen in order to work. Controls are awful, combat is annoying, story is uninteresting. Storyline goes like this: Bad guys sabotage ship, because ship is evil, we stop the bad guys, because we think ship is good, the end.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The ultimate edition of the jaw-dropping action-adventure game set onboard a floating city.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Hydrophobia: Prophecy scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/92000/hydrophobia-prophecyReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.