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The Medium

January 28, 2021AdventureESRB M

Overview

About The Medium

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.
Story setup
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.
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At a glance

Released
January 28, 2021
Platforms
Xbox Series X/S, macOS, PlayStation 5, PC
Genres
Adventure, Action
Play modes
Single Player
Age rating
ESRB M
Time to beat
~9 hours
Media

Screenshots

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Playtime

How long to beat

Player-reported completion times for The Medium.

Rushed
6hoursMain story only
Typical
9hoursStory plus some extras
Completionist
10hoursEvery side objective too

Estimated from 5 player reports — a small sample, so treat these as approximate.

Playing together

Multiplayer & game modes

The Medium offers various play modes for different gaming experiences.

Play Modes

Single Player

Content

Age ratings

How rating boards around the world have classified The Medium. Open a board for its content descriptors.

ACBR 18+

References to sexual violence

CLASS_IND16
  • Violência (Violence)
  • Drogas Lícitas (Legal Drugs)
ESRBM
  • Blood
  • Sexual Themes
  • Strong Language
  • Use of Tobacco
  • Violence
GRAC19+
  • Language
  • Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug
  • Violence
PEGI18
  • Bad Language
  • Sex
  • Violence

There are graphic scenes of violence, including a scene of torture in which a man who is bound to a chair is repeatedly punched until he is unconscious. The punches are delivered by a person wearing chain mail gloves and cuts and bruises are visible on the beaten man's face. In another scene, a child is pinned to the ground while he begs for mercy. The game also includes use of strong language ('fuck').

USK18

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