Mind Games

Mind Games

Skip · Short indie · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 26, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
20h 30h to 100%
Value
$0.25/hr
Reviews
69% of 215 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Value$0.25/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews69% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 57 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

Mind games is a great set of extremely hard brain twisting puzzles! Warning: this game is for smarties! Only one out of ten people can solve the first puzzle!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, OpenGL 1.1 Capable Video with 512MB VRAM, 31 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 77 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Super Jigsaw Puzzle: Generations (free, scores 82) and Sudocats ($1.99, scores 97) both outscore it.

The drop-off

4% start to <1% 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

What players say

It's cool that you can play different puzzles, but the design of each one is worse than the other. there is no aesthetic pleasure. You 're sitting there thinking it over , and you have an unpleasant picture . Well, this
76561199837813947Not recommendedafter 4.3hMay 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Stolen sounds and music assets from The 7th Guest. Obvious copyright infringement.
JonesRNot recommendedafter 28hFeb 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Mind Games scores 26/100 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/448560/mind-games
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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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAK Games
PublisherMy Way Games
GenreShort indie
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements30