Hob: The Definitive Edition
Hob: The Definitive Edition is an artfully crafted single-player adventure which sends gamers on a mysterious, breathtaking journey through the ruins of a lost civilization, where they will encounter strange…
Hob: The Definitive Edition is an adventure developed by Panic Button Games, released 4 April 2019 on Nintendo Switch.
What Hob: The Definitive Edition is
Hob: The Definitive Edition is an adventure game developed by Panic Button Games and released in 2019. It was published by Beijing Perfect World. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on OGRE. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hob: The Definitive Edition is an artfully crafted single-player adventure which sends gamers on a mysterious, breathtaking journey through the ruins of a lost civilization, where they will encounter strange creatures and unlock satisfying puzzles hidden throughout the world. The team at Panic Button has developed a version of the game for Nintendo Switch that provides adventurers with brand new ways to unravel the mysteries of Hob. This includes added camera controls, improvements to the game’s UI, a variety of quality-of-life improvements and new features only possible on the Nintendo Switch system, including HD rumble and touch screen functionality.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Hob: The Definitive Edition holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Hob: The Definitive Edition launched on 4 April 2019, within three weeks of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Anno 1800 and Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Anno 1800, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced.
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