Ludography
47/100
Players6 ratings
74/100
Metacritic4 critic reviews
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Metacritic usersuser score
36/100
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0.5/5
Player reviews
66% positive169 reviews
Steam Deck
Verified
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$14.99

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2021 · Mad about Pandas · Puzzle · Adventure

Hitchhiker

Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory. As a hitchhiker with no memory or destination, you catch a series of rides across a strange and beautiful landscape, tracking the mysterious disappearance of a person close to you. Your drivers range from stoic farmers to off-duty waitresses, and each one has a story to tell. Clues appear, alliances emerge, and nothing is quite what it seems.

Released
26 March 2021
Platforms
iOSmacOSNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4WindowsXbox OneMeta Quest
Genres
PuzzleAdventureIndie
Developers
Mad about Pandas
Publishers
Versus EvilHumble Bundle
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First person
Themes
Mystery
Engine
FMOD, Unity
Age ratings
PEGI 12ESRB TGRAC 12+CLASS_IND 12USK 12ACB M
Languages
ArabicChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)DutchEnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortuguese (Brazil)and 5 more
Features
Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam achievementsSteam trading cards
Time to beat
2.5hmain story3hcompletionist
›Story

You’re a hitchhiker on a strange journey, unable to remember who you are or where you’re headed. Something in your recent past has stolen your memory— but what? The highway offers clues: a matchbook hidden in your armrest, a photo in the glovebox, billboards and crows along the roadside. Your driver, a farmer, wants to help you, and his personal memories and recollections provide an unexpected window into your own backstory.

So far, so good… until a chance slip-up exposes a pattern of deception, secret correspondences and cruel design. From there, the road is full of surprising turns that will challenge every assumption you’ve made along the way. To complete your journey, you’ll need to choose your friends wisely— never knowing if your worst enemy is your own subconscious mind. Hitchhiker is a game about memory, identity and loss, all along a highway where nothing is quite what it seems.

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Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
iOS26 March 2021Worldwide
macOS26 March 2021Worldwide
Nintendo Switch15 April 2021Worldwide
Windows15 April 2021Worldwide
PlayStation 415 April 2021Worldwide
Xbox One15 April 2021Worldwide
Meta Quest10 March 2022Worldwide

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