The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is an adventure game developed by Cloak and Dagger Games and released in 2022. It was published by Wadjet Eye Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adventure Game Studio.

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are drama, historical, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored about average for its year.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow launched on 28 September 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island and The Case of the Golden Idol. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island, The Case of the Golden Idol.

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