Conscious Existence - A Journey Within

Conscious Existence - A Journey Within

Skip · Short indie · 2019

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$4.99Skip

On its price record

$1.70Fair

Length
0.2h
Value
$24.95/hr
Reviews
87% of 633 positive
It needs 90% off ($0.49) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.70 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$24.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 357 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

You are gifted every moment with life's most precious achievement: A conscious mind, enabling you to sense and hold within, the universe's boundless beauty - a source of infinite inspiration that fuels your inner space. - C.E. is a linear, stereoscopic 360/VR-video short film experience.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 1080 (AMD not supported), 12 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 60 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Red Matter ($24.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Firmament ($20.99, scores 24).

More about Conscious Existence - A Journey Within

Of the 357 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 585 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

I cant give this enough stars, such a beautiful and wholesome experience. I've showed it to everyone i get the chance, some even come out of it crying. All the best to the creators behind this, the world need more minds like that.
DamnDudeRecommendedafter 3.2hMay 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
amazinggg experience and highly recommended!! really takes you on a beautiful healing journey with some of the best visuals and music ever seen in vr.
scopusRecommendedafter 6.0hMay 2025Read on Steam
As Oculus Rift Reviews stated: ...purely cinematic VR experience with no interactions." "Some of the best visuals in VR!" Not sure if it still works in Windows 11 in 2025. But it was a great experience 10/10. Will experience it again soon! Ps: Try it with narration and narration off.
typewriterRecommendedafter 1.8hMar 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Conscious Existence - A Journey Within scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1093330/conscious-existence-a-journey-within
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMarc Zimmermann
PublisherEpicScapes
GenreShort indie
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate