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Ria's Hook

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2018

Should you play it?

Ria's journey to the strange storm...

What works
  • Challenging and skill-based gameplay
  • Unique swinging mechanics
  • Emotional and meaningful narrative
  • Good value for price
  • Distinctive art style and music
Things to keep in mind
  • Floaty and delayed controls
  • Technical bugs and lack of polish
  • High difficulty causing frustration
  • No save system or checkpoints
  • Limited accessibility and customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Driving Is Hard

  • ALTF42

  • GuGu Pizza : Delivering Pizza to the Space Station? Boss, this is just not right!

  • Shio

  • Tunnet

  • BLACKHOLE

  • Egging On

  • Cloudbuilt

  • Slime-san: Superslime Edition
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Driving Is Hard

  • GuGu Pizza : Delivering Pizza to the Space Station? Boss, this is just not right!

  • Dark Roll
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Ria's Hook: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fantasy.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Competence

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  • Competition

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  • Experimenting

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  • Exploration

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