Umfend

Umfend

Fair · Narrative · 2018

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.9h 1.5h to 100%
Value
$11.10/hr
Reviews
90% of 703 positive
It needs 67% off ($3.28) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.28 or less.

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
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$11.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 355 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

The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important. However, in 2005, the past emerges again to hunt you once more. An atmospheric horror about love and time.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, amd radeon r7 200 series, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 42 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mouthwashing ($12.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Gray Dawn ($19.99, scores 46).

More about Umfend

This site sampled 355 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 526 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 82 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Great game its not better then miside but its the same concept love it big W for developers hope peaceful mode will be this year finished in miside
D3xx1NRecommendedafter 1.1hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Well thought out little game. Graphics are good for the art style. Pretty creepy and cute at the same time. I enjoyed piecing together the story. Game makes you wonder wtf is going on sometimes which is part of its charm. I had one crash when I first tried to play. Some unreal error. Played great after that. I would like to play a larger more in depth version of this game. I enjoyed going back and reading the...
FeelgoodtrippRecommendedafter 1.6hJul 2026Read on Steam
I played Miside before this and can see the Good bones how that game turned out. Umfend/10
spookhunter2012Recommendedafter 1.6hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Umfend scores 50/100 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/779090/umfend
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperAIHASTO
PublisherVolens Nolens Games
GenreNarrative
Released2018
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate