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Thought Experiment Simulator

HoHo Game Studio · Gamirror Games · 2024-07-22

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 23, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 23, 2024 (Mac), Apr 17, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

This is a stupid game that might include Trolley Problem, Ship of Theseus, Brain in a Vat, Infinite Monkey, Sisyphus, Prisoner's Dilemma, Schrodinger's Cat, etc.

81%
positive of 723 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2h
to beat · completionist 3h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 9,834 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k33k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 723 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.42 at GameBillet (2025-09-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

Completion

20
achievements tracked
62.2%
earned "Buridan's Ass"
28.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, French, Russian, German, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)41337%20

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DNoirIndieMemesShortCasualComedyTrainsParody Dark Humor

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