The Test: Secrets of the Soul

The Test: Secrets of the Soul

Worth it · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Price
Free to play
Reviews
98% positive
Length
No data
no length in our data yet
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
98%
1,567 reviews, as of Sep 25
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 1024x768 or better video resolution in High Color mode, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 97% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats 100 Asian Cats (free, scores 79).

Inside the two-hour refund window, 99 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 99 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The Test: Secrets of the Soul scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 1,567 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2231890/the-test-secrets-of-the-soul
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 25.

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Details

DeveloperRandumb Studios
PublisherRandumb Studios
GenreRPG
Released2023