The Medium
Skip · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $49.99.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $6.25/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, @1080p NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650 Super or GTX 1060 / Radeon R9 390X, 55 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A third‑person psychological horror game where you explore both the real world and the spirit realm. As a medium drawn to a deserted resort, you’ll uncover dark secrets, confront echoes of trauma, and face the consequences of seeing more than one truth.
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
It has never been cheaper than $12.49. That was September 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 44 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 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 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Little Nightmares ($4.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats The Path ($9.99, scores 37).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 387 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
87% start to 5% 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
6 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
For me, this game is one of a kind... While you're playing, you can't wait for it to end, but by the very end, you don't want it to end... The game has a great atmosphere. The voice acting is wonderful. For those who want to play, I highly recommend going through the entire game from start to finish in one sitting. Otherwise, you might miss out on that powerful climax. We're hoping for a sequel!
Two playable characters The game is good, but too short for the full price, only buy on discounted price, I played twice so no regrets. 100% achievements is obtainable for only 1 playthrough PROS -No woke -No LGBT -No whitewashed -No diversity -No microtransactions -No Permadeath -Unlimited continues -So many autosaves slot -Controls are easy to learn, easy to master -Achievements are obtainable regardless online or...
Really great story, even though it's only 10/12 hours of play there is one part that goes a bit to long with repetative steps that are a little annoying but overall I strongly recommend this game.
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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The Medium scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1293160/the-mediumThe 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 19, price as of Sep 24.
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