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The Medium

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3.8/5

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3.8

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The Medium
Description
Discover a dark mystery only a medium can solve. Explore the real world and the spirit world at the same time. Use your psychic abilities to solve puzzles spanning both worlds, uncover deeply disturbing secrets, and survive encounters with The Maw - a monster born from an unspeakable traged...
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3.8/5

( 75 Reviews )

3.8

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Product details
2021, Bloober Team SA, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
System requirements
Windows 10 (64bit version only), Intel® Core™ i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500X, 8 GB RAM, @1080p NVIDIA...
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Time to beat
8 hMain
9 h Main + Sides
10 h Completionist
8.5 h All Styles
Description




Discover a dark mystery only a medium can solve. Explore the real world and the spirit world at the same time. Use your psychic abilities to solve puzzles spanning both worlds, uncover deeply disturbing secrets, and survive encounters with The Maw - a monster born from an unspeakable tragedy..



The Medium is a third-person psychological horror game that features patented dual-reality gameplay and an original soundtrack co-composed by Arkadiusz Reikowski and Akira Yamaoka.

Wield unique psychic abilities reserved for those with the gift. Travel between the realities or explore them both at the very same time. Use the Out of Body experience to investigate places where your real-world self can’t go. Create energy shields and deliver powerful spirit blasts to survive the spirit world and its otherworldly dangers.



Delve deep into a mature and morally ambiguous story, where nothing is what it seems and everything has another side. As a medium you see, hear and experience more than others, and with every new perspective you will change your perception on what happened at the Niwa resort.



Never-seen-before and officially patented gameplay that plays out across two worlds displayed at the same time. Explore the physical world and the spirit world simultaneously, and use the interactions between them to solve dual-reality puzzles, unlock new paths, and awaken memories of past events.



The Medium’s spirit world is a dark mirror reflection of our reality, a grim and unsettling place where our unpunished deeds, evil urges, and vile secrets manifest themselves and can take on a form. This world has been invented and designed under the inspiration of Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings, Polish dystopian surrealist internationally recognized for his distinctive and strikingly ominous style.



Immerse yourself in the disturbing and oppressive atmosphere of the game thanks to the original ‘dual’ soundtrack co-created by Akira Yamaoka and Arkadiusz Reikowski. Yamaoka-san is a legendary Japanese composer best known for his work on the Silent Hill series; Reikowski is a Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee who worked on such acclaimed horror games as Blair Witch, Layers of Fear, and Observer. Now they join their creative forces for the music and songs of The Medium.


“The Medium” and all logos, characters, names, and related indicia are ®, TM & © 2021 Bloober Team S.A. All Rights Reserved. “The Medium” game developed by Bloober Team S.A. Bloober Team is a registered trademark of Bloober Team S.A. (Inc.) in US and/or other countries. “The Medium” game published and distributed by Bloober Team S.A. All rights reserved. Uses the Unreal® Engine. Unreal® is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. in the in US and/or other countries. Unreal® Engine, ©1998 – 2021, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved. All other copyrights and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise indicated, the completed "The Medium" game is the property of Bloober Team S.A. Reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, for any purpose, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.

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Time to beat
8 hMain
9 h Main + Sides
10 h Completionist
8.5 h All Styles
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Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
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39.8 GB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Tobacco)

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Posted on: February 22, 2021

dan1138

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Games: 230 Reviews: 7

Great atmosphere, terrible execution

Bloober Team, it must be said, consistently does a superb job on the execution of its games. The graphics are great, the score is great, the writing is usually at least solid. And in that regard this might be their best game yet; Marianne is a really great character, and I like how the plot is closely tied to recent Polish history in a way that feels fresh and serves as an engine for the story. Unfortunately, the mechanics are day-old bread stale. The game never quite knows what use to make of the splitscreen gimmick, and honestly I wish they'd swiped a page from "Murdered: Soul Suspect," which uses a somewhat similar concept and approach to better effect. Ultimately this is just a point-and-click game with some survival horror sequences bolted onto it, and it's less scary than deeply annoying. If you're really into point-and-click, or like the story, check it out, but otherwise, pass.


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Posted on: April 9, 2022

rootsrat

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Games: 303 Reviews: 5

Great story makes up for the bad parts

THE GOOD - Amazing, multi-layered story - The setting - Well defined characters - Graphics - Audio THE BAD - Controls - Performance THE REVIEW This is a linear point and click adventure game that reminds me of many classics. The story is great and has many layers. We discover it piece by piece, but not always in chronological order. It goes back years sometimes to present us with retrospective information, which eventually all fall into place. I've had lots of fun discovering the main plot and learning about all of the characters and how their side backstories explain their place in the main storyline. There are some puzzles to solve, but they aren't very difficult to figure out. This is not a bad thing actually. They give just a little challenge, but don't detract from the most important thing - the story, which to me is the best thing about this game. Being a Polish person raised in the post-communist era, I was instantly captivated by the setting of the game that brought a lot of nostalgia and memories from my childhood. The graphics and audio are of the highest quality. However the controls are clunky and very unintuitive, which makes the experience annoying at times. The performance can be very bad, the game stuttered on an nVidia 3080 RTX card quite often. Annoyingly it would also happen during the dynamic "escape the monster" parts, which - similarly to clunky controls - has just detracted from the overall experience. I am still giving it 5 stars, because for me the amazing storyline has definitely made up for bad controls and performance issues. I really hope there is going to be a sequel!


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Posted on: September 29, 2024

espantajofilms

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Games: 22 Reviews: 2

A genius title

Endearing character, great story and atmosphere.


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Posted on: December 7, 2024

Rhyno4GOG

Verified owner

Games: 174 Reviews: 12

Good game overall

I've just finished the game and must say, the visuals, environments, sound design, level design even the light puzzles were all great and the dual world element does add to uniqueness of the game. As for the story, it is quite fresh and well paced with a good amount of plot twists (SPOILER - the ending feels open, are we going to get a sequel?). As for the technical aspect, the optimization is not ideal. The game does look beautiful, the ray tracing does work nicely, DLSS does its thing as well I suppose, but the frame rate just isn't consistent through out the game, even on RTX 4070 Ti Super. Thinking this is a Nvidia sponsored game, I would expect much better performance form an Nvidia RTX 40 series card. That being said, I would still recommend this game to anyone who likes adventure horror games with some light puzzles and action scene here and there.


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Posted on: July 3, 2025

WeirdRadish

Games: 357 Reviews: 12

A great experience

I was very pleasantly suprised by the game. The story was interesting from start to finish (I really love mysterious ghost-stories like this), the game looks great (the stylization and atmosphere was amazing), and is not overly long (around 9 hours). I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes a good story and is perhaps interested in seeing a bit of Soviet Poland (that's certainly not common!).


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