State of Mind
Skip · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 560 / AMD Radeon 7770 or similar, at least 2 GB of VRAM, 23 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
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
The value story
November 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 31 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, VirtuaVerse ($14.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day ($9.99, scores 38).
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 78 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 606 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 200 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
59% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 23:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
First of all I will say this game is way different and unique than initially expected and its FABULOUS its one of those games where the story is what keeps you not the graphics even though The artstyle character desgn world building into Polygon graphics is just amazing like there is nothing to complain its just too perfect The story is kind of a slow burn that picks up the pace mid story and its so intense that you...
NO SPOILER: First the cons so they are out of the way: - The characters show as many emotions as a Polish guy smiling. (Then it makes sense when you realise that it was made by Germans lol) - The animations overall are not that great and there are a few bugs here and there. - The controls are so awful, it feels like they got the ones from truck simulator and decided to attach them to a human character to see how it...
I'd give this a 7/10. Whilst I enjoyed it, it's a bit of a mixed bag. On the plus side: - Its a great concept and story (and would make a cool sci-fi movie). - The characters are well developed and the voice acting is very good - The visuals are impressive - It's a reasonable length On the negative side: - Although there is some game-play, it's very linear and verging into interactive-movie territory. And what...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
State of Mind scores 43/100 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/437630/state-of-mindReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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