Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $5.99.
- Story and characters: 222 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 128 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 45 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 3k player reviews · updated 4 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The story is genuinely compelling.
The voice acting is excellent.
There were lots of different locations to explore, and the pixel-art style was pretty.
In gameplay terms, The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow embraces the traditions of classic adventure games but trims away much of their unnecessary complexity.
The puzzles weren't too difficult and 'moon logic' for solving wasn't really a problem as the puzzles were fine to figure out without grand leaps of logic.
The interface is clean and intuitive, allowing players to explore, collect objects, and solve puzzles without tedious pixel hunting or obscure logic.
+1 more the community rallied around
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $5.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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