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El Hijo - A Wild West Tale cover art

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

Honig Studios · HandyGames · 2020-12-03

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 25, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 25, 2022 (iOS), Dec 03, 2020 (Xbox One), Dec 03, 2020 (Mac), Dec 03, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 03, 2020 (PlayStation 4)

El Hijo is an exciting spaghetti-western stealth game, in which you guide a 6-year-old boy on his quest to find his mother.

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale is an Adventure, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2020, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (80% of 229 reviews).

1
playing now
80%
positive of 229 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.6k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 229 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-80%
GOG$3.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-80%
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2024-11-25) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 81 of 122 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920202026Week of 2020-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-08-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$21.53$1.812020-12-032026-08-302020-12-03 — best price $16.992021-02-17 — best price $16.882021-03-22 — best price $15.992021-04-23 — best price $9.672021-05-25 — best price $19.992021-07-08 — best price $19.992021-08-22 — best price $13.502021-10-29 — best price $14.892021-12-16 — best price $13.992022-01-31 — best price $9.992022-03-22 — best price $11.992022-05-30 — best price $16.582022-08-05 — best price $11.992022-10-15 — best price $9.992022-12-10 — best price $19.992023-02-02 — best price $9.992023-04-20 — best price $6.992023-07-03 — best price $17.972023-10-04 — best price $6.322023-12-21 — best price $4.992024-03-05 — best price $5.992024-05-10 — best price $8.002024-08-13 — best price $17.402024-09-30 — best price $4.002024-12-02 — best price $19.992025-02-20 — best price $4.002025-04-27 — best price $3.802025-08-01 — best price $16.572025-10-24 — best price $19.992025-12-07 — best price $19.992026-04-01 — best price $19.992026-06-18 — best price $3.992026-08-28 — best price $3.992026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
81%
earned "Truant"
16.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

25 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)2199%23

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DCuteCasualComedyPuzzleStealthWesternCartoonyColorfulStrategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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