Thought Experiment Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.56/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 726 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 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
About the game
This is a stupid game that might include Trolley Problem, Ship of Theseus, Brain in a Vat, Infinite Monkey, Sisyphus, Prisoner's Dilemma, Schrodinger's Cat, etc.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 502 MB of memory, Geforce 9600 GS, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
24 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Loading Screen Simulator (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats MEMOLOGY: GOYDA ($1.99, scores 39).
More about Thought Experiment Simulator
4 of the 416 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 282 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
62% start to 17% 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
What players say
more akin to a free flash game you'd find on newgrounds. this doesn't make it bad, but the price tag immediately makes this not really worth lol. feels like an attempt at a stanley parable type game, but it doesn't have the sauce nor wittiness. the humour is mostly "omg u did something different! come on!! i didnt want u to do that!!!" or "woah, wasn't that so weird?? erm, that just happened" for a game called...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
While this game is fun, it is not worth the money spent. The simulations are great, but after you get all of the achievements there's nothing new to see and for a simulator it has very little replayability. I was able to 100% the game in less than 2 hours, and that includes beating the extra "challenge" mode that is really easy. The little hidden easter eggs were cool and unexpected. My least favorite part of the...
The best part about the game is its interactive design that let players stray from the fixed storyline, paired with plenty of the developer's personal insights, rather than thought experiments themselves. I played the modified Chrome T-Rex runner, read the creator's personal essays and even saw an ad for the game made by his friend. This is why I love indie games.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Thought Experiment Simulator 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/2696320/thought-experiment-simulatorReviews 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.