I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Fair · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, A VESA compatible Super VGA card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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 !!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 79 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tormentum - Dark Sorrow ($3.83, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Sanitarium ($9.99, scores 59).
This site sampled 609 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 739 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.
The drop-off
13% start to 3% 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
16 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I'm a bit mixed here because the story is wonderful and relevant, the pixel art is nice, the voice acting is okay too, but the gameplay is a real pain and even if you use a guide, it won't be so easy to complete. I think it's up to you and your patience.
Short and fun game to play if you like puzzles, i would also recommend the novel. I absolutely love the apocalypse-like story.
this game is super fun and i love the lore and the voice acting and pixel art and allat is really well made but it is so INFURIATING for some of the parts i had to use a guide to finish the few characters i did and its still probably gonna take me a while to finish it off but good game in general EDIT: i finally finished! it took a while and the save system was really weird so it got reset a few times and the final...
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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-screamThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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