I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!

English voiceAdventureOctober 18, 2013
Highly recommended
GamePickHub score
88% of 3,644 Steam reviews positive
-85%$9.99$1.49
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At a glance

● Pros

  • Steam reviews: "Very Positive" (88%)
  • Full English voice acting
  • 85% off right now ($1.49)
  • Runs on low-end PCs (min. 0.0625GB RAM)
  • Steam Deck Verified

● Cons

No notable downsides in the data.

Great for

  • Exploration and storytelling

Summarized automatically from Steam reviews, Metacritic, language support, price and spec data.

What players talk about

How often each topic comes up in 57 Steam reviews (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) · 95% of them recommend the game

  • Story👍 16 👎 1
  • Bugs👍 7
  • Difficulty👍 7
  • Atmosphere👍 6
  • Graphics👍 5 👎 1
  • Music & sound👍 3 👎 1
  • Amount of content👍 4
  • Controls👍 3

Counts how many reviews mention each topic, split by whether the review recommends the game.

“best game 10/10 would endure 109 years of torture again”
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About the game

  • Assume the roles of five different characters, each in a unique environment
  • Challenging dilemmas dealing with powerfully charged emotional issues
  • Provocative psychological and adult-oriented themes
  • Based on Harlan Ellison's short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", one of the ten most reprinted stories in the English language
  • Full digitized speech with over 40 different characters and state of the art animation
  • Harlan Ellison as the voice of the insane master computer, AM.

FIVE DAMNED SOULS: Buried deep within the center of the earth, trapped in the bowels of an insane computer for the past hundred and nine years. Gorrister the suicidal loner, Benny the mutilated brute, Ellen the hysterical phobic, Nimdok the secretive sadist, Ted the cynical paranoid.

ONE CHALLENGE: The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of the five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!

Source: Steam store page (provided by the developer/publisher)

PC requirements

Minimum

OS *: Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10
Processor: IBM PC with a 233Mhz 486 processor
Memory: 64 MB RAM
Graphics: A VESA compatible Super VGA card
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card

Recommended

OS: Windows 10
Processor: IBM PC with a 486 DX2/ 66Mhz (or faster) processor
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Graphics: A VESA compatible Super VGA card
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card

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