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2021 · Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich

How long isThe Medium?

by Bloober Team

8.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 13 hours

Steep for its length: $5.88 an hour, dearer than 170 of 185 psychological horror games here.

Does The Medium hold up?

Grows on people

Grows on you seal

74% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 94% at 20–50 hours played.

Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.

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Do the first two hours of The Medium tell you?

In the first two hours52%recommend it

After that91%recommend it

15 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 8.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 13 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 10,400 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 74% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 94% at 20–50 hours.

5% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 52% of those recommend it. After the window, 91% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 77% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6 hours in.

When would you get there?

9days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 8.5 hours on Thursday, October 29.

Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 13 hours: Oct 26 to Nov 2 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in The Medium?

The filter

You Saw, You Ran, You Lived

10 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Edge of Sanity and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. The Last GoodbyeSend Jack's spirit away.−1585% hold it
  3. Welcome to NiwaReach the hotel.−1075% hold it
  4. The Cheerful KindMeet Sadness.−471% hold it
  5. Edge of SanityAcquire the razor.−764% hold it
  6. You Saw, You Ran, You LivedSurvive a monstrous encounter.Filtered −1054% hold it
  7. Through the Looking GlassUse a mirror to cross over.−351% hold it
  8. Cut the CrapAcquire the bolt cutters.−447% hold it
  9. The ChildeaterExperience your first vision of Thomas.−344% hold it
  10. ThunderstruckDefeat the creature in the flooded ruins.−440% hold it
  11. Dark WaterMake it through the pump station.−337% hold it
  12. Can't Always Save EveryoneFinish the game.−136% hold it
How this is counted

85% of the players who launched The Medium hold The Last Goodbye, its first story achievement on Steam, and 36% hold Can't Always Save Everyone, its last. The steepest drop comes between Edge of Sanity (64%) and You Saw, You Ran, You Lived (54%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is The Medium worth it?

Is The Medium worth it? Mostly.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical psychological horror game gives 2.3× the hours for the money

  • Loved

    91% recommend it after the refund windowmost psychological horror games: 92%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $49.99, the typical player's 8.5 hours come to $5.88 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $5.88 an hour, The Medium costs more per hour than 170 of 185 psychological horror games here: the typical one of 185 psychological horror games here charges $2.55.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (psychological horror games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like The Medium?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Medium, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Medium would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

What did people here do with The Medium?

  • 1 in 1,740

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like The Medium

All 30 games like The Medium, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.