Masochisia
Fair · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 435 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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 young man discovers through a series of hallucinations that he will grow up to become a violent psychopath. How will he respond to these revelations? Can he change his fate? Can you even... change fate...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 69 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bad Dream: Coma ($8.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Decay: The Mare ($4.99, scores 46).
More about Masochisia
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Masochisia is not a game that tries to entertain in the conventional sense, and it makes that clear almost immediately. Developed and published by Oldblood, it presents itself as an experimental psychological horror experience, but even that label feels insufficient. It is closer to an interactive descent into a fractured mind, one that places the player in an uncomfortably intimate position with its protagonist...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
TLDR: This is a very dark game, with some heavy themes, but it's also a game that pushes the boundaries of what a game can be. It's a shame more developers don't take chances like this - it's not a game for everyone, but if you want a truly unique experience, seek this out. Even though I play a lot of AAA games (sometimes paying too much for them - though I've weened myself off that particular habit), I also do my...
This game is a headache. A significant part of me wants to believe that I like this, given that it is one of the few horror games which I can actually handle, but not only is it so edgy that it loses tact and nuance, but the true crime connection makes it downright tasteless. There's a real irony to the fact that it ends with a direct commentary on people's innate interest in violence and yet its mere existence is...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Masochisia scores 51/100 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/396310/masochisiaReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.