2019 · Story Rich · Platformer · Metroidvania
How long isHorace?
by Paul Helman & Sean Scaplehorn
12 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 3.5 hours and 22 hours
Horace among the 218 puzzle platformers here
The whole tier list#197
of 218
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 6%
- got past 2 hours
- −35 on the kind's 40%
- 0%
- past 20 hours
- −3 on the kind's 3%
- 8%
- launched it
- −51 on the kind's 59%
- 72
- libraries own it
- 1 in 34 of the 2,477 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Long for a puzzle platformer: 12 hours for the typical player, longer than 226 of 236 puzzle platformers here.
Do the first two hours of Horace tell you?
In the first two hours50%recommend it
After that86%recommend it
20 in 100 said no: 12 after the window had closed, 8 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 12 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3.5 hours and 22 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 697 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
17% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 50% of those recommend it. After the window, 86% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 58% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 3 hours in.
When would you get there?
12days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 12 hours on Thursday, November 26.
Half of its reviewers had played between 3.5 and 22 hours: Nov 18 to Dec 6 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in Horace?
The filter
First time outdoors
19 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Top of the class! and never earned it.
How this is counted
84% of the players who launched Horace hold Top of the class!, its first story achievement on Steam, and 12% hold Game over, its last. The steepest drop comes between Top of the class! (84%) and First time outdoors (65%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is Horace worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Horace
- Steam list price, US
- $14.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 12 h
- puzzle platformer rate
- $2.86/h
- 12 h at that rate
- $34
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Horace worth it? Mostly.
A steal
2.3× the hours of a typical puzzle platformer, for the same money
Liked
86% recommend it after the refund windowmost puzzle platformers: 90%
Often left unplayed
8% of owners here have played itmost puzzle platformers: 62%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 12 hours come to $1.25 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.25 an hour, Horace is cheaper per hour than 209 of 236 puzzle platformers here: the typical one of 236 puzzle platformers here charges $2.86, so the same $14.99 buys 2.3× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (puzzle platformers) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Horace today?
Almost anywhere
PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One.
- todayPC2019
- todaySwitch2020
- todayPS42023
- todayXbox One2023
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Horace came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Horace?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Horace, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Horace would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
What did people here do with Horace?
1 in 1,210
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like Horace
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Horace: a kind of game it is that Horace is not, a feature its tags carry that Horace's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.