I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Worth it · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.49.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 4,088
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 7.7h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 13
Price and sales
- Sales
- 81 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.59 December 2014
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 43 now
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
14% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. Across all 81 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sanitarium ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats The Last Door - Collector's Edition ($9.99, scores 75).
More about I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
This site sampled 622 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 168 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 770 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A solid creepy point n' click based off an incredible short story! featuring Harlan Ellison himself! I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream was one of those games that used to pop up all the time on YouTube videos with "Top 10 Scary DOS Games" and such and it looked horrific from the art style and footage shown and it is no joke. This game has some excellent music and voice acting by Mr. Ellison himself playing the role...
2 more reviews
After beating the game and getting all of its achievements, I will finally give the game a review. The game is an adaption of the 1967 short story by Harlan Ellison with the same name. I've read the book and this expands a lot aside from the book it's based on. Which I kind of liked how they did it.. First off, I am a huge fan of the story and this game, the story is so iconic, creative, well-written and even...
Stunning game for its time. Very memorable villain with a story that can get heavy at times.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, A VESA compatible Super VGA card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/245390/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-screamReviews 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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.