AI: The Somnium Files
Worth it · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 23h
- Value
- $0.87/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA@ GeForce@ GTX 460 or better, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was January 2025. It has been discounted 53 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pentiment ($9.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Blacksad: Under the Skin ($19.99, scores 53).
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 272 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
79% start to 9% rarestNo 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
Players
44 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 19:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I loved the Nonary Games, and this almost scratches the itch. Still not a bad game, I'd even say a solid 8/10 for the story. The only issue I had were the puzzles, they seemed very illogical, and more of a trial and error.
Assuming you are one of the few people that would buy this game not enjoying a decent amount of "anime-esque" talk and jokes, if you stick through with this game you'll find that despite that you have an incredibly tightly written story, chock full of twists and turns that will keep you entertained until the end. And even though the gameplay is by all means non-existent, the quality of the narrative more than...
date i need you to lock in. stop arguing with the 12 year old child. stop trying to hit on the receptionist. date, are you listening? anyway i have a whole lot to say about the game. not quite sure where to begin. i guess with the characters? the cast hard carries the game. i'm not a huge fan of voice acting in general but they really cement the characters here and the directing and performances are top notch across...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
AI: The Somnium Files scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/948740/ai-the-somnium-filesReviews 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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