Mu Complex

Mu Complex

Skip · Narrative · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$8.99Skip

On its price record

$5.23Fair

Length
3.5h 5.5h to 100%
Value
$2.57/hr
Reviews
80% of 206 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.23 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 378 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

Raising the score
Engagement18% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 45 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

Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3D acceleration enabled card, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

41 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 54 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division ($19.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Hacker Simulator ($24.99, scores 24).

More about Mu Complex

Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

84% start to 18% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

A breath of fresh air for the genre. At one point I had google, excel, a piece of paper and pen to solve the game's puzzles. Good fun!
Glauco FoxRecommendedafter 4.3h32 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Big Review Update: General: I love this game, the way you have to think way outside of the box to solve the puzzles is just amazing. I definitely want more games like this. And to clarify this version of the game has the first and second episode of MuComplex that where previously on kongregate. I do not know how a possible release of a third episode might be handled. As much as I love the game, the way the steam...
GoodGirlErikaRecommendedafter 6.3h25 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Requirements to player's cultural knowledge is too high. Developer is clearly not aware some people are not their exact copies. Also some puzzles have become literally unsolvable in an intended way due to some game-unrelated things.
Skuld the NornNot recommendedafter 1.6hMar 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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Mu Complex scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/383690/mu-complex
Embed the live badge

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 30, 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

Developerstudiocime
Publisherstudiocime
GenreNarrative
Released2015
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements37