In Sound Mind
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $11.95, only fair at $34.99.
- Length
- 10.3h
- Value
- $3.40/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 280, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.49, set in June 2023. Its cuts run 89 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 5 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $11.95. The record reaches that level 46 times.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition ($16.99, scores 57).
75 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 571 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 293 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 10% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
15 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Me lo compre porque el soundtrack era de TLT, pero sinceramente, me he encontrado una maravilla de juego. Con una jugabilidad al estilo Resident Evil, un estilo artistico muy bueno, una historia genial que me ha hecho querer adentrarme en la historia de cada uno de los pacientes y obviamente, un soundtrack genial.
One of my FAVORITE games, by far. biggest fixation I've had. all achievements completed. <3
Aside from some annoying design choices to artificially extend playtime, like forcing you to press 'E' eight times to unscrew four separate screws or 4 times just to open a door, this is an amazing game. Definitely worth playing!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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In Sound Mind scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1119980/in-sound-mindThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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