Once Upon A Mind - A Little Too Friendly
Fair · Narrative · 2025
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h 0.9h to 100%
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 254 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
A story-rich psychological horror inspired by real-life experiences. Follow Emily, 23, as she moves to Brooklyn for a fresh start, but finds herself drawn into a slow spiral of obsession and control. Featuring voice acting, this atmospheric and grounded experience is deeply unsettling.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 11 discounts in the 17 months tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway ($9.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats [Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達 ($2.99, scores 48).
More about Once Upon A Mind - A Little Too Friendly
This site sampled 235 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 200 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 85 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to 33% 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
Absolutely loved this , great work dev 👏 It's short and it hasn't got perfect graphics but it doesn't need to . It builds up the tension gradually and plays into the feeling that no amount of made up monsters will ever be more terrifying than the human monsters who walk amongst us every day. Loved the little references to other games. Eagerly awaiting the next release
1 more review
I really enjoyed playing this game. The story was really deep and realistic. I appreciate the simplicity of the graphics and tasks. All in all, great cozy horror game!! <3
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Once Upon A Mind - A Little Too Friendly scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3690750/once-upon-a-mind-a-little-too-friendlyReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.