Posted on: March 4, 2019

P-E-S

Games: 1983 Reviews: 41

A fun Zelda-ish adventure

Hob is at its best when all of the pieces of its continuously altering mechanical world fall into place. It's genuinely fun to explore its world, and the gameplay is quite satisfying with some caveats. While I understand the necessity for the fixed camera angles, it makes the game's controls sometimes not as accurate as I would have liked, making it possible to misjudge a jump or walking direction on the plentiful narrow ledges. In the latter part of the game it can also leave players directionless when it simply stops giving one a new guide point on the map. This made me wander around aimlessly long enough before I decided to look up help online, and I found out that this is not an uncommon occurrence for many players. Sadly, this glaring flaw will never be fixed in a patch since Runic Games was shut down by their owners Perfect World shortly after Hob released.

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Posted on: October 14, 2019

Bookend

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Games: 348 Reviews: 1

A decent adventure with few issues

If you have played Torchlight, Hob's artstyle and level design will appear familiar. Part platformer, part puzzler, and part action, it strikes a decent middle-point between the three. The controls are fairly simple, and combat strategies can usually be boiled down to some variation of "strike - dodge - strike - dodge", with a few semi-armoured enemies that require a charged strike with your comically oversized robot arm to either break through or upset long enough to get a few hits in. Hob also attempts the difficult feat of trying to tell its entire story without using a single word, relying entirely on dialogue grunts, level design, and NPC actions. While this does include an absolutely staggering amount of detail in some scenes, it can also quickly leave the player with a sense of confusion over what is going on. And there are still several dozen questions that never get answered, simply due to the word-less story. The major drawbacks to the game are the repetive art style for terrain - you may need to rely heavily on your map for navigation - and low variance in enemies and puzzles (most of which becomes "find a way to supply power, then find a way to a button to push" after the tutorial). And trust me, you WILL wrestle with the camera from time to time even though its position is 100% fixed throughout the game.

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Posted on: December 15, 2020

danielsmith99

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Games: 179 Reviews: 10

Just great, enjoyable throughout

The movement is solid, with only a few areas I had jumping trouble in. The exploration, the feeling of opening up areas, is amazing. The team obviously designed extremely carefully for good flow. And I feel successful playing it. As I recall, there was no way to add a custom pin to the map. So I couldn't mark an area I lacked the tool to access, for later. Or maybe I was just dumb. Might play again someday soon, because the game lacked story, I was immersed in it in the moment.

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Posted on: August 28, 2025

AnarchistCY

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Games: 219 Reviews: 9

Nice puzzle game, good for kids

A nice puzzle game I play with my daughter. She can manage most puzzles but needed assistance on some occasions, especially timing puzzles.

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Posted on: September 24, 2025

Moosefoo

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Games: 102 Reviews: 3

Love this game!

You should play it. I really enjoyed playing this game.

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