Hob
Hob is set on a beautiful and dangerous unknown world, with buzzing life above and the whirrs of mysterious machinery below. The more players delve into the world’s design, the more they uncover a planet in…
Hob is an adventure developed by Runic Games, released 26 September 2017 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.95 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 12.1 hrs to finish.
What Hob is
Hob is an adventure game developed by Runic Games and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on OGRE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hob is an action-adventure game developed and published by Runic Games. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 on September 26, 2017. An enhanced port developed by Panic Button was released in 2019 for the Nintendo Switch. It is the last game developed by Runic Games before their dissolution. It is set in a science-fiction world filled with bizarre wildlife, over-grown architecture, and arcane machinery.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 37 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Hob holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 78 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12.1 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.95, that works out to about $0.24 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for i3 Sandy Bridge Dual Core or Equivalent, 4 GB RAM and 2GB of VRAM; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 500 Series / AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.95 at GameBillet, 85% below its usual price. Across the 3 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $3.99 — a spread of $1.04 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Hob launched on 26 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hob yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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