El Hijo is an exciting spaghetti-western stealth game, in which you guide a 6-year-old boy on his quest to find his mother.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.29/day in the week to Sep 7 → 0/day in the week after.
About
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale is an exciting spaghetti-western stealth game, in which you guide a 6-year-old boy on his quest to find his mother.
As a six-year-old, "El Hijo" must always sneak past the dangers of his world. As he overcomes his challenges, he gains self-confidence and cunning and with it more schemes to get past his foes. On his journey, he will find himself in a remote monastery, a harsh and unforgiving stretch of desert and a frontier town rife with crime and villainy.
The journey begins when a farmer and her son El Hijo are attacked by bandits who raze their farm to the ground. The mother decides to leave "El Hijo" at a secluded monastery in order to protect him. However, El Hijo decides that the monastic life is not for him and decides to escape. "El Hijo - A Wild West Tale" is a non-violent stealth game. Violence is instead exchanged with the mischievous, playfulness of a young child. Shadowplay is in the core of the game and "El Hijo" will often have to hide. Without needlessly adding new mechanics, the gameplay is extended naturally, as variations of existing mechanics are gradually introduced and then combined with each other to increase the challenge. These twists on familiar mechanics are often a product of the varied, increasingly dangerous environments that "El Hijo" must traverse to reach his ultimate goal.
Survive the Wild West with the cleverness of a young hero
Explore dark monasteries, deserts and boomtowns in a spaghetti-western world
Merge with the shadows to hide from the lawless
Solve playfully tricky environmental puzzles
Use a playful arsenal of tactical toys to bypass and distract diverse desperadoes
Inspire other children towards the path to freedom
Enjoy the gripping storyline of a brave son searching for his mother
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, GOG, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 232reviews | 81% | — | $54.2K |
| $19.99 | 243ratings | 75% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 44 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Bardzo fajna, przyjemna gra na krótsze sesje (godzinka gry na raz). Raczej z tych prostszych, nie miałem żadnych większych problemów logicznych czy strategicznych - czasami tylko trzeba się zastanowić jak przejść dalej, bo czegoś na pierwszy rzut oka nie widzimy. Ale to rzadkie sytuacje. Polecam, zwłaszcza w promce (30zł, pełnej ceny raczej bym nie dał) :) Cała gra na 7-8h. Do 9-10, jeśli chcemy uratować dzieciaki, a pominęliśmy je na jakimś poziomie i trzeba powtarzać misję. Produkcja nie posiada żadnych napisów czy dialogów, z wyjątkiem prostego interfejsu. Ale nadal ma fabułę i ciekawą oprawę wizualną. 7.5/10 PS. Dla tych, którzy lubią osiągnięcia - jedno jest takie, by nie dać się złapać na wszystkich poziomach. Niestety nie ma żadnego oznaczenia tego, więc jeśli chcemy to zrobić, od razu musimy tak grać. Lub potem powtarzać każdą misję (jest ich 30) - co nie ma sensu, bo nie zachowujemy boostów i itemków z kolejnych poziomów.
Underrated game. It reminds me Assassin's Creed Chronicles but better. More various, more ways to hide, to distract, to escape. A little like Desperados but way easier. Also I don't get all the complains about controls. They are not so bad, I used to them very quickly. And there is an autosave every 2 or 3 moves, so even if you have feet instead of hands you don't have so much to redo.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 30 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian +13 more
| $19.99 |
| 45ratings |
| 76% |
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| $19.99 | 25ratings | 68% | — | not modelled |
| $3.99−80% | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Bastante recomendable si te gustan los juegos de sigilo como puzzles a resolver. Teniendo pocas mecánicas le saca bastante partido al diseño de niveles. Respecto al diseño de niveles, no es demasiado complicado y si eres agil podrás marear un poco la IA de los vigilantes. La única pega es que alguna vez puntual puede haber algún bug que implique reiniciar el nivel. En mi caso han sido 2 bugs críticos de reiniciar nivel, y una que las animaciones se rompiesen momentáneamente. Aún así por 5 euros, recomendable
Sadly, the game has no soul. It's as if someone slept through class and copied others' homework without knowing why they were following certain rules, and more importantly, without knowing when to break them. The result is absurdities such as: - Using the exact same Windows app crash wheel animation for the stamina bar, which led me to initially wonder if the game crashed when I tried to sprint. - M.C. Escher-esque scenes due to poorly implemented shadows. - The child's mother running away from him when he's in trouble as if she's running away from a crime scene. - Enemies who don't see the child's, clearly visible, shadows right in front of them. - Priests on patrol duty for some reason... - You can get away with by copy-pasting characters if they're not memorable (e.g. using a generic soldier asset), but multiple copies of a character with very distinguishing features really breaks the immersion. - Opening a chest to find... a rock....yep, a rock, to display it Zelda-style above his head. - Crates you can only open near a certain set of pixels, namely Bob and George.
Agosto 2025 - 7 de 31 Juego simple pero bien hecho, al menos en su mayoría, no he jugado casi ningún juego de full sigilo por lo que tampoco tengo experiencia en ello y no sabría decir si eso es positivo o negativo para la experiencia de jugar este juego. Muchas partes parecen que no están del todo bien programadas y el "contenido opcional" por así decirlo, o sea llegar en cada nivel hasta todos los niños termina siendo mucho más desafiante que ir hasta el punto final para avanzar de nivel, creo que lo pudieron haber pensado mejor para que el juego en general te aliente a pensar bien tus movimientos y no solo la parte más de completista, de todas formas entretiene y sin ser un jugador habitual de sigilo lo recomendaría. 6/10.
This is a stealth + (little?)puzzle game. ส่วนตัวเป็นคนถนัดเกมแนว stealth อยู่แล้วเลยรู้สึกว่าไม่ยากเท่าไหร่ บวกกับเกมนี้มี checkpoint ระหว่างด่านด้วยเลยทำให้เล่นง่ายขึ้นมาก แต่มีข้อเสียตรงทำ control มาไม่ค่อยดีเท่าไหร่ บางทีทำเอาหงุดหงิดเลยอย่างในสถานการณ์ที่มันต้องกดหลบแบบเร็วๆงี้แต่ปุ่มหลบดันไม่ขึ้น และถ้าคุณลองเล่นเกมนี้ดูแล้วรู้สึกถูกใจ เราขอแนะนำ Robbery bob อีกเกมให้คุณไปลองเล่นดูค่ะ เผื่อจะชอบ
Oui je recommande ce jeu, mais prenez garde, le jeu n'est pas si simple, y'a des niveaux assez retors, et il est un peu longuet, malgré tout cela reste un jeu agréable.
controles malísimos
As far as performance goes this runs smoothly on Deck. Gameplay is slow and quite tedious but stealth deckers might find it interesting. An average OK game
👾 El Hijo - A Wild West Tale (🇩🇪 2020) Amusing stealth-puzzle game about a son trying to reunite with his mother. Cozy vibes, lovely art style and simple gameplay. Nothing much to add. 🎮 Played on Steam Deck Rating: 🌵🌵🌵🏜️▫️
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