This Strange Realm Of Mine
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h 6.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 675 positive
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
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About the game
This Strange Realm Of Mine is a First Person Shooter mixed with poetry and psychological horror. Graphic style is 3D mixed with pixel art.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 275 | GeForce 9600 GT, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 93 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($0.75, scores 37).
More about This Strange Realm Of Mine
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 306 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
2.7 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
39% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Don't get fooled by the action and music in the trailer. It HAS shooter elements, but at it's core it is a psychological travel through the mind. Surprisingly lots of (neglect-able) dialogue. which may or may not make sense.
2 more reviews
Great game; simple design yet deeply rich in its fleshed out introspective nature. It asks questions and shares thoughts that you may have had once, or fears and struggles you may yet to come across. I don't see a lot of replayability, but that's okay because it was a satisfying game w. mouse and keyboard. Gun/fighting gameplay is fun, so are some of the quirky design choices and one of the scenarios even had me...
This game feels like hanging out with a friend that has theories. You know, that one friend that has theories. About universe, meaning of life, God, all that big stuff. He figured it out. He hasn't read any advanced philosophy books or quantum physics he's always ranting about, but it dosn't matter because he's just a dude. This game is a glimpse into this dude's inner world. For this reason it doesn't feel...
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Cite this score
This Strange Realm Of Mine scores 53/100 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/655730/this-strange-realm-of-mineReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.