AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 26.4h
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA@ GeForce@ GTX 460 or better, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
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
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 33 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure ($15.99, scores 53).
This site sampled 789 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
79% start to 11% 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
17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'm so pissed at this game; it took me almost two years to force myself to finish it. Somehow they just remade the first game because they used the same characters, assets, locations, and even the same jokes over and over again. Heck, even the ending is the same. They only changed the mystery and writing for the worst things ever. While in the first game this was forgivable and even playful, here it is absolutely...
should've used the time they spent on this borefest to remake the first game and fix the outdated 3D models and clunky ui instead
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative raises an imporant question: What if we tried to make a game like the previous one, but completely squandered our pre-existing main characters in the process? Character assassination and unsatifying dynamics for the sake of a plot twist that's really just "Okay" compared to everything in ZE and previous AITSF should be illegal. However, the terrible things done by the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1449200/ai-the-somnium-files-nirvana-initiativeReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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