THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Director's Cut
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 4.6h 6.4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.26/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 367 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
Dr. Herman, your sci-fi journey begins. Armed only with your mind and the Manipulator that operates with different types of energy, you'll have to pass through portals, visit parallel worlds, and solve physics-based puzzles.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970 or AMD equivalent, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 12 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre. The Shore ($11.99, scores 28) outscores it, and so does My Friendly Neighborhood ($29.99, scores 60). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Director's Cut
11 of the 345 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 156 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 11 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
70% 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
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 13:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a decent puzzle-type game, but I did not expect nor appreciate all the horror sections that are just poorly implemented and rely on trial and error. Graphics are nice, music is alright. Puzzles are ok, most of them are kinda trivial, but there were places I got stumpted at for a bit. The story is.. there. Can't say I was overly interested, but it wasn't bad. Voice acting could've been a bit better, it did feel...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I liked the story and the puzzels the voice acting was lacking in a few moments but the puzzels were fun. There were still a few bugs. But I hope the next patch will clear it up UPDATE: Bugs got fixed :)
Played this years ago and completely forgot about it. Don't really remember anything about it so must not have been memorable. Though what i do remember is the dev stopping by and getting annoyed and treating me like an idiot because i was trying to solve a puzzle by breaking it. So yea not recommend.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Director's Cut scores 25/100 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/2155770/the-muller-powell-principle-director-s-cutReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.