Mouthwashing
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.00. Typically $9.09 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.20/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 39,385
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.00 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.5h
- To 100%
- 3.6h 1.4x the story
- Finish
- 14% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 18
Price and sales
- Sales
- 21 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $7.79 June 2026
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 127 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 25% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
99% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
21 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $6.00, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 6 percent. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, THRESHOLD ($9.99, scores 49) and Father's Day ($6.99, scores 63) both come in lower.
More about Mouthwashing
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 2,578 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 4 days ago.
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
I knew this would be a game I would love ever since I saw it being teased in How Fish Is Made. I put off playing it for a long time for that reason. I didn't want to lose the option of playing it for the first time, for the first time. Now that I have I am satisfied that it lived up to the hype I bestowed upon it. This game and No, I'm Not Human are perfect games in the horror genre that I love so much. :) Amazing...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Mouthwashing is a masterpiece of modern indie horror! A great spin on classic sci-fi horror: no aliens, no evil technology. It's almost a paradoxical kind of horror, with sci-fi as its setting, while the only horror is human. It is also an example of in medias res and nonlinear storytelling done well in gaming. It's not easy to make a nonlinear narrative, but Mouthwashing makes its back-and-forth storytelling feel...
Reviews painted it as a masterpiece of a game, but in reality it's a primitive walking simulator with a "deep story" - a completely linear short game (about three hours). After two hours of wandering around a small ship without my actions having any influence on what was happening, I decided to request a refund and watch the last hour of a playthrough to see what the ending was. The main twist turned out to be...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 560, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mouthwashing scores 71/100 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/2475490/mouthwashingReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.