The Medium is an adventure developed by Bloober Team, released 28 January 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $9.99 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 8.8 hrs to finish.
What The Medium is
The Medium is an adventure game developed by Bloober Team and released in 2021. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Marianne, a medium hounded by visions, lives and interacts across two worlds: the real one and the spirit world. Haunted by the vision of a child’s murder, she travels to an abandoned hotel resort, which many years ago became the stage of an unthinkable tragedy. There she begins her search for difficult answers. As a medium with access to both worlds, she has a wider perspective and can see more clearly that there’s no one simple truth to what others perceive. Nothing is what it seems, everything has another side.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 39 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Medium holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 171 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8.8 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $9.99, that works out to about $1.14 per hour of the main story, or $0.97 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500X, 8 GB RAM and @1080p NVIDIA GEFORCE® GTX 1650 Super or GTX 1060 / Radeon™ R9 390X. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 55GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.99 at Fanatical, 80% below its usual price. Across the 5 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $12.49 — a spread of $2.50 for an identical product.
What it launched against
The Medium launched on 28 January 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Hitman 3, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury and Skul: The Hero Slayer. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Hitman 3, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Medium yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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