The Indigo Parallel
Worth it · Action · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99, a BANGER if it drops to $11.03.
- Length
- 3h 13.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.33/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 281 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.03 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
About the game
A surreal mind-bending journey into the depths of madness. You assume the role of Tom, a man hopelessly in love with Daisy, who embarks on a psychedelic adventure through a bizarre and unpredictable world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3.4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or higher, 3.4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $11.03 BANGER line 27 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Satellite Odyssey: Prologue ($1.19, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe ($24.99, scores 60).
More about The Indigo Parallel
Of the 261 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3 hours; clearing it takes 14, which is 4.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
44% start to 2% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 08:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Cool if you like LSD Dream emulator and or The Stanley perable or if you just like confusing games
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Indigo Parallel is a thought-provoking first-person psychological adventure developed and published by Chris Danelon. Rather than relying on conventional horror mechanics or straightforward storytelling, the game invites players into a surreal experience where reality is constantly distorted and every new discovery raises more questions than answers. It combines dreamlike exploration with branching narrative...
To answer the question: No, I would not recommend this game. It's a walking simulator with a movement speed that doesn't justify the unholy amount of repetition you're forced to endure. Because of this, the game fails to build its intended atmosphere and the sheer density of "weird", unexplainable assets plastered around at random makes it feel like just another generic asset flip.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Indigo Parallel scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1550870/the-indigo-parallelReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.