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Hourglass cover art

Hourglass

Cyberwave · 2021-10-22

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 30, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 30, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Jun 30, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Jun 30, 2022 (Xbox One), Jun 30, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 22, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

89%
positive of 406 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
3.49★
PlayStation Store rating (35 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

"Pyramids are the tombs of the pharaohs". This is what most people believe. But more and more studies raise doubts about this thesis. Scientists found indications for ancient Egypt being far more technologized than we can imagine. Hourglass is set in a scenario in which those assumptions are actually true.. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is travelling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archaeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition. Your journey leads you to a remote temple where you encounter undiscovered Egyptian technologies and portals to a foreign worl(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (90 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 27,176 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.1k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 406 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.98-90%
IndieGala$1.99-90%
Microsoft Store$17.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.59 at Fanatical (2026-03-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 81 of 137 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
898920212026Week of 2021-10-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$22.49$1.692021-10-222026-10-102021-10-22 — best price $22.492021-12-23 — best price $19.992022-02-18 — best price $17.492022-05-27 — best price $19.992022-10-03 — best price $11.992022-12-12 — best price $5.992023-03-06 — best price $9.992023-06-12 — best price $19.992023-10-16 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-07-29 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-10-27 — best price $19.992025-11-20 — best price $14.392025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-01-02 — best price $19.992026-01-17 — best price $2.992026-02-02 — best price $17.882026-02-18 — best price $19.992026-03-02 — best price $2.992026-03-23 — best price $19.992026-04-08 — best price $1.992026-04-20 — best price $19.992026-05-07 — best price $1.992026-05-21 — best price $19.992026-06-02 — best price $1.992026-07-01 — best price $2.002026-07-15 — best price $19.992026-07-27 — best price $16.042026-08-11 — best price $1.992026-08-20 — best price $19.992026-09-02 — best price $1.992026-09-12 — best price $2.002026-09-22 — best price $19.992026-10-05 — best price $2.002026-10-10 — best price $1.98
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
73.9%
earned "Your journey begins"
39.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)31544%10
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)11849%10
PS5 (PlayStation)5248%10
PS5 (PlayStation)2556%10
PS4 (PlayStation)2162%10
PS4 (PlayStation)1625%10
PS4 (PlayStation)540%10
Switch (Nintendo)40%0
PS4 (PlayStation)450%10

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

Player tags

IndieLogicPuzzleMysteryStylizedAdventureDifficultControllerAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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