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In Sound Mind

In Sound Mind

In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.

Released Sep 28, 2021 Developer We Create Stuff Publisher Maximum Entertainment Platforms Windows HorrorPsychological HorrorStory RichPuzzleAction
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

95.2%positive5,812 reviews
Recommended · 13 found this helpful

“Truly an unexpected hidden gem, the soundtrack and everything is genuinely amazing. Highly recommend this game, I did not expect to like it this much.”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“Really great game let down by modern game design tropes. You know the memes where a video game character won't shut up, telling you exactly what to do immediately and without prompting? That's who you play as. You click on a screw and your character says something like "I could…”

— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played
Recommended · 9 found this helpful

“ABSOLUTE CINEMA. Holy shxtt. Probably the first horror game that made me this emotinal(if we are not talking about zombie horror that is). Last time i played horror game this good was Alan wake 2. Story is remarkable. Graphic is good but not great. sound track is good. combat is…”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:18 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

10playing at last check
1524-hour peak
399all-time peak
0 50 100 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 93 avg · Jun 2023

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

32achievements
22.6%median completion
9.1%rarest: Well Medicated
64.1% of players 62.8% of players 59.8% of players 46.6% of players 42.4% of players 41.7% of players 37.1% of players 33.6% of players 31.8% of players 28.0% of players 25.6% of players 24.7% of players 23.8% of players 23.1% of players 23.1% of players 23.0% of players 22.6% of players 22.5% of players 21.0% of players 17.8% of players 17.0% of players 16.9% of players 16.8% of players 14.6% of players 13.3% of players 12.6% of players 11.2% of players 11.0% of players 10.3% of players 10.2% of players 9.9% of players 9.1% of players 64.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
64.1%GOTY 10/10 — Pet Tonia
62.8%Point and Shoot — Acquire the Pistol in your building
59.8%Nope. — Hang up on your sneaky stalker
Rarest badges of honor
9.1%Well Medicated — Find all pills in the game
9.9%Pill Popper — Collect all pills in the forest level
10.2%Pharma Bro — Collect all pills in your building

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$6.99−80% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$34.99base price
$6.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-25
US6.99 USD−80%
EU5.99 EUR−80%
UK5.55 GBP−80%
Australia9.99 AUD−80%
Canada7.99 CAD−80%
Japan720 JPY−80%
Brazil13.19 BRL−80%
China20.60 CNY−80%

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$2.6 China Japan Canada EU Australia US UK≈$7.4

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Oct 22, 2025
Free game Days Without Incident is out now!

Last month, at the 4 year anniversary of In Sound Mind, we announced Days Without Incident: A short, free horror title we've had hidden away since 2017. We took a side quest to wrap it as a proper gam

Sep 28, 2025
In Sound Mind is 4! And a new tiny horror experience coming

Today, In Sound Mind turns 4! To celebrate this year we wanted to give you something special that's part of our history as a studio - Days Without Incident. Days Without Incident was first built in 20

Sep 28, 2024
In Sound Mind was released 3 years ago today!

On September 28th 2021, we anxiously hit the release button for In Sound Mind. We had no idea how the game would be received. A lot of the design was a leap of faith. In Sound Mind was also the first

Oct 11, 2022
In Sound Mind update 1.06

Hello fellow Desmonds, Just two weeks ago, we celebrated 1 year since release of In Sound Mind. We're still here, and we still watch you play, and read your reviews and admire your awesome fanart. Tha

May 31, 2022
In Sound Mind update 1.05 - New 8 bit tracks from The Living Tombstone and more!

Hello fellow Desmonds, We're excited to ship In Sound Mind patch 1.05 across all platforms today. This update brings further performance optimizations to the game, user experience improvements, bug fi

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Indie
Player tagsHorror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Puzzle · Action · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · First-Person · Indie · Shooter · FPS · Action-Adventure (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil *
ControllerFull support
Achievements32
Estimated owners500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://insoundmind.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: 64-bit Windows 7 Processor: Core i5-4460 / AMD FX-6300 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 280 Storage: 20 GB available space