Mimic Search

Mimic Search

Fair · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Length
0.5h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
89% positive
Length
0.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
89%
1,053 reviews, as of Sep 25
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 or AMD Radeon 6870, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Mimic Search is a short indie horror game, in which you take the role of a police officer investigating a recent mimic attack.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length0.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 93, Kuindzhi (free, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Missing Hiker (free, scores 57).

2 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:51 UTC.

The drop-off

42% start to 10% 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

Players

2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Mimic Search scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 1,053 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2713460/mimic-search
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 25.

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Details

DeveloperGemezl
PublisherGemezl
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Achievements5