The Mobius Machine
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$19.33Fair
- Length
- 9.1h 22.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.20/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 495 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.33 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible with support for Shader Model 5.0 and 1GB VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
28 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 41 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, AWAKEN - Astral Blade ($19.99, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap ($19.99, scores 48).
More about The Mobius Machine
4 of the 378 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026.
The main story runs 9.1 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 2.4 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
98% start to <1% 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
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 07:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A really great Metroidvania, not too difficult, but not too easy either. I'd say it's very well balanced. I can definitely recommend The Möbius Machine!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Lots of Metroidvania value, and looks very nice, and movement, platformer, and combat are well done. Hard but not ESPECIALLY frustrating (unlike half the games). So I definitely recommend. However: I am really upset about no map markers, I waste so much time backtracking. it seems like these games want to limit markers, why the hell can't we just make unlimited ones?? Friggin blasphemous made you buy them and there...
this game does not respect your time. if you die you have to recover half your money and some areas make this impossible. auto save screws you out of resetting. the progression is slow and the game introduces fast travel way too late in the game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Mobius Machine scores 49/100 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/2281940/the-mobius-machineReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.