MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition

MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition

Skip · Strategy · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 14, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
4.2h
Value
$3.57/hr
Reviews
65% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.57
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
65%
1,426 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
75
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2014

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7600 GS, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
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

Holding it back
Value$3.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews65% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 66% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length4.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 149 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.89. That was August 2018. It has been discounted 51 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. On the same math Layers of Fear 2 (2019) ($19.99, scores 21) and Rise of Insanity ($9.99, scores 41) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

The press liked it more than its buyers did, 75 against 65 percent.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 279 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

60% start to 3% 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

Cite this score

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MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/296070/mind-path-to-thalamus-enhanced-edition
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players-10
Critics
75
Players
65
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,426 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPantumaca Barcelona
PublisherTalking About Media
GenreStrategy
Released2014
Achievements23