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Mate cover art

Mate

BONNATE · 2022-07-06

Steam

ActionIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 07, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Mate is a third-person story-based game with a multi-ending game with puzzles and physical controls.The protagonist, the perpetrator of school violence, is anxious that his actions will be revealed to others, which leads to psychological hallucinations and nightmares.

0
playing now
79%
positive of 29 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-09-19 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 75% of 16,519 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $17.99 at Steam (2025-08-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920222025Week of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

14
achievements tracked
69.1%
earned "Wake up"
16.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Korean

Player tags

3D2.5DIndieActionHorrorOld SchoolPlatformerExplorationFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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