MOOD

MOOD

Fair · Narrative · 2025

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1h
Value
$5.99/hr
Reviews
86% of 487 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.79 (20% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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

Holding it back
Value$5.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 360 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6100, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

7 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 15 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59) and Kindergarten 2 ($14.99, scores 73) both outscore it.

More about MOOD

This site sampled 360 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 144 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

93% start to 38% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

MOOD, developed and published by MAT Affect, is an experience that deliberately distances itself from conventional game design in favor of something far more abstract and interpretive. Rather than presenting clear objectives, structured progression, or mechanical challenges, it invites players into a space where atmosphere and emotion take precedence over action. This makes it less of a traditional game and more of...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 10hMar 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
The past is the past. We cannot indulge ourselves in memories and destroy the present.
ovoRecommendedafter 27hApr 2025Read on Steam
Действительно уникальная я интересная ruvn в которой сокрыто так много вопросов на которые никто не даёт ответы.. Пройти любителям точно стоит, однако вы никогда не узнаете почему, зачем, как, когда, а что было до, а что будет после и прочие вопросы которые останутся в голове после прохождения.. приятного чтива.
NeverCookFirstRecommendedafter 5.6hMar 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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MOOD scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2566880/mood
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMAT Affect
PublisherMAT Affect
GenreNarrative
Released2025
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13