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Hourglass

88% positive of 332 Steam reviews

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Released
2021
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam, Xbox / PC Game Pass, PlayStation

Made by Cyberwave.

About the game

In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.

Tagged by players

  • Puzzle Platformer
  • Time Manipulation
  • Mystery Dungeon
  • 3D Platformer
  • Female Protagonist
  • Time Travel
  • Difficult
  • Puzzle
  • First-Person
  • Logic
  • Mystery
  • Atmospheric

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    At a steep discount I'd recommend it. Hard to say it is a great game, very hard to say it is worth the current full price. Two ways to look at this game - it took me 6.5 hours, or 4.5 years. I quit playing it twice and came back after a long break. The movement is jank and the time mechanics combined with that seem intentionally frustrating. That said, it is good to see a different take on stuff introduced by Portal…

    6.6 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I Like this Game :3

    4.2 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I noticed a lot of reviews mentioning the Talos Principle and Portal, and then that leads to disagreement as to whether Hourglass needs to be "that good" or whether it's fair to compare it and hold it to that standard. Guys, this is just a bad game. It's a very low effort, going through the motions, knock-off, coat-tail type of game. If "fake it 'til you make it' were a game. The puzzles are very yada-yada: simple,…

    57 min played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 6 found it helpful.

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