Honeycomb: The World Beyond Reviews: Steam & Critics
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What players and reviewers praise
- ✅ A colourful, good-looking world; 'the game looks amazing' is the opening line of the most helpful Steam review
- ✅ Animals you can pet and befriend one by one, which several video reviewers single out
- ✅ A science-first loop with no killing, which Senses.se and Kekbur both call its point of difference
- ✅ Modular base building where dismantling refunds 100% of materials (developer reply on Steam; Kekbur interview)
- ✅ The custom Engineer mode can switch off hunger, decay, building costs or animal aggression
What players and reviewers criticise
- ❌ Picked plants and carried items decay very fast; Hotfix #1 halved inventory decay, and players still call it harsh
- ❌ World settings cannot be changed after a save starts, so a wrong choice means a restart
- ❌ Clumsy controls: tools cannot be put away quickly, the middle mouse button cannot be remapped in the opening, and controller map scrolling is slow
- ❌ The hoverboard throws you off on small bumps
- ❌ No co-op, which many forum threads mention as the reason they are not buying
Why there is no score here
We have not played it enough to justify a score of our own, so this page reports other people's numbers with dates and sources. They will move as more reviews come in.
Steam numbers from the appreviews API on 10 September 2026; quotes from the Steam store, the Steam forum and the named reviews.
The numbers, with sources
| Signal | Value | When | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam user reviews (all languages) | Very Positive: 49 positive / 11 negative (82%) | 10 Sep 2026 | Steam appreviews API |
| Steam user reviews (English) | Mostly Positive: 25 positive / 8 negative (76%) | 10 Sep 2026 | Steam appreviews API |
| Metacritic | No critic score yet | 10 Sep 2026 | metacritic.com game page |
| Senses.se | 6 out of 10, tested on Xbox Series X; 'the score is high, but without a recommendation' | Sep 2026 | Senses.se review |
| Players online on Steam | 332 | 10 Sep 2026 | Steam GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers |
| Wishlists | 200,000 | 2 Jun 2026 | Hive Update #15 |
| Steam Deck | Playable (small text) | 10 Sep 2026 | Steam Deck compatibility report |
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