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- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · Kinguin
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- 17 offers · 12 stores
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A deals site put out a post yesterday saying State of Mind was being handed out on GOG, yours to keep, for a limited time. We opened the GOG catalogue this morning to check it ourselves. The window is shut. The game sits there at €1.99, a 90% cut from the €19.99 it normally carries.
Anyone who arrived late now has a different question to answer, and it is a cheaper one than it looks. Our page for the PC version holds 21 live offers from 16 stores, and the one at the top asks €0.49.
The giveaway has closed and GOG now charges €1.99
What GOG sells is a DRM-free installer. No client running in the background, no login to keep alive, a file that still works in ten years without asking anyone's permission. At €1.99, with 90% knocked off the €19.99 list price, that is a fair thing to pay for a Daedalic adventure.
It is also four times what the same game costs on our page. The gap between GOG's €1.99 and the €0.49 Steam code that opens our PC page is €1.50, and that €1.50 buys exactly one thing: independence from a launcher. If you collect installers, pay it and know why. If you want to play the game this evening, there is nothing there for you.
Both purchases put the game in your hands for good. One offer further down our own page does not, and it asks twenty times more than the code at the top.
Twelve Steam codes come in under €1.80
All twelve are Standard editions in the global region, and every one of them redeems on your own account. Kinguin opens at €0.49, then Eneba at €0.61, YUPLAY at €0.66, Driffle at €0.67, Gamivo at €0.85 and Instant Gaming at €0.99. Above the euro mark: G2A at €1.05, a second Kinguin code at €1.15, G2A again at €1.62, Gamivo at €1.70, Driffle at €1.75 and CDKeys at €1.79.
Then the page changes scale. GamesPlanet wants €15.51, Green Man Gaming €19.99, and Steam itself €19.99 for the identical download — forty times the Kinguin code. Nothing separates those files except where you typed the code in.
Four more entries sit on the page from shops that stopped refreshing their data a long time ago: Royal Key Software at €1.17, MMOGA and Online Gold at €1.99, The Cd Key Hub at €2.31. We leave those out of the count, because the last figure we recorded from a shop is not what that shop is charging today.
| What you get | Cheapest | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Steam code, stays in your library | €0.49 | Kinguin |
| DRM-free installer | €1.99 | GOG |
| Shared Steam account | €10.74 | G2A |
| Steam Standard, official store | €19.99 | Steam |
The €10.74 offer is a borrowed login
G2A lists a shared Steam account at €10.74. You play from somebody else's profile, the game never lands in your library, and you keep access for as long as the seller allows. It costs more than twenty times the €0.49 code that does belong to you.
It sits among the codes and, from a distance, looks like the same sort of purchase. What separates them is who holds the copy afterwards. A code goes into your account and the game stays there whatever the seller does next, while shared access lasts exactly as long as the seller keeps the profile alive. For €10.74 you could buy the GOG installer five times over and still have change left.
Two cents off the record, on the day of the giveaway
We hold 2,535 daily readings of this page. The first is dated 23 April eight years ago, roughly four months before the game went on sale, and the all-time low is €0.25, set on 18 June six years ago at MMOGA. Yesterday the page came down to €0.27 at Kinguin, two cents above that record, in the middle of the noise the GOG giveaway made. Today the floor is back at €0.49.
Month by month the lows read €15.38 in April, off only three days of readings, then €2.03 in May and €2.00 in June. July broke it wide open at €0.29, August settled at €0.39, and this month already carries the €0.27.
Day by day across the last three weeks: €0.59 on the 18th, 19th and 20th of August, €0.58 from the 21st to the 23rd, €0.49 on the 24th and 25th, €0.42 on the 26th, €0.39 on the 27th and 28th, €0.67 on the 29th, €0.57 on the 30th, €0.67 on the 31st, then €0.49 every single day from the 1st to the 6th, €0.27 on the 7th and €0.49 again today.
Read that series and today's 49 cents stops looking like a spike of luck. It is simply what this game costs on a normal day, and it has been for three weeks. Holding out for another €0.27 means watching the page for however long it takes to save 22 cents.
A man, his digital copy, and a Berlin that has not happened yet
Daedalic Entertainment both developed and published it, and it went on sale on 15 August eight years ago. Near-future Berlin, two leads — one of flesh and blood, one a digital copy of him — and a story that keeps handing you from one to the other. The look is hard-edged polygonal and stays that way. The pace is slow on purpose: you talk, you look around, you put pieces together. There is barely anything here for someone who wants a fight.
Steam's verdict is Mostly Positive, 1,176 positive out of 1,547 reviews. Metacritic settled on 69. OpenCritic gathered 55 reviews, 46 of them from top critics, with a median of 70, a top-critic average of 67.67 and 29.09% of them recommending it; the label there is Fair.
That is a game worth a look at 49 cents and a harder sell at €19.99, which is the whole reason the resale page matters here. If the premise appeals, buy State of Mind key from the top of our page and leave the GOG version to the people who want the installer on a drive.
Console buyers get a worse deal, and it is worth knowing before you go looking. The Xbox One page has three offers from €9.99, the Switch page three from €14.99 and the PS4 page two from €11.99. On all three the cheapest entry is a shared account rather than a download of your own, so the real starting price for a copy that stays yours is higher than those figures suggest.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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