I hate this game
BANGER · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 276 MB of storage. Windows only.
I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.
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 $0.93. That was June 2023. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 8 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, VVVVVV ($4.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Baba Is You ($14.99, scores 80).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $3.93. It costs $1.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 437 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 443 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
79% start to 42% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 20:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I hate this game is a puzzle title that immediately captures attention through its deliberately provocative name. Developed and published by Pixel Error, the game embraces a philosophy of challenging player expectations at every turn. Rather than relying on traditional puzzle-solving formulas, it presents a collection of unconventional challenges that often require players to rethink how they interact not only with...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
I hate this game scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/976010/i-hate-this-gameReviews 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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