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Scholar's Mate - First Move
Scholar's Mate First Move is a first-person horror experience in a psychiatric hospital. Use your wits to escape from this sinister place.
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-28)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“what I liked about this game, is it's enviroment, the enviroment alone makes the game even more scarier ( the graphics also vastly different from low to ultra and I mean very very much that very few games have ) But its very annoying, the puzzles and other things are very hard…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“the game is way too short to be any fun and it just lacked the horror aspect mostly”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2024-11 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
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Scholar's Mate is now available on Steam!
Scholar's Mate is our newly developed video game. It's a horror Escape Room where you will not be alone. Eddie, a despicable human who has kidnapped Judith, will not stop hunting her. Can you get out
1.0.1
Fixed several minor bug fixes Added rich-text in-game descriptions Added loading screen Change illumination settings
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Escape Room · Psychological · Mystery · 1990's · 3D · Investigation · Story Rich · Action-Adventure · Realistic · Thriller · Controller · Puzzle (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Spanish - Spain, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Ukrainian * |
| Official site | https://www.jandusoft.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 /AMD FX-6300 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 760 2GB / Radeon R9 270X 2GB or better DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6 GB available space