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Hippocampal: The White Sofa
Developer Freegamer
Walk through this world to understand how it works! From the Steam store page
72 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon) · newest Jul 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
34
Rotten
24 positive · 46 negative
95% range 24–46%
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| Steam reviews | 24 | 46 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
38 of 106 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 72 · most liked firstDestilled meaningless cryptic bull'. Inflict it on your enemies, annoying siblings, and that one friend that owes you money. You might get some fun out of giving it to someone as a joke, just don't buy it with the intention of enjoying it yourself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I consider myself open to game-as-art. The issue with this game is that it lacks any coherence or execution. While making a "WTF worthy" game might be interesting for half a second, with no core discernable message the whole experience falls flat. Level design is horrible, requiring the player to trial and error there way through to various objectives- In fact I would liken the level design to the worst parts of classic adventure games: half an hour of "is this where I need to go? No?…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game does not run. Shows splash screen and then leaves. Game specs state that DirectX 9 is required but in actual fact, the splash screen says Dx11 so that must be the problem. More lies.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought it would be funny and deliver a few genuine WTF moments. But unfortunately it is poorly created and the WTF moments seem incredibly forced. Could not stand the movement enough to continue playing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice try. But here's a thought: A game needs order and meaning to deliver apparent chaos and meaningless. You just made a 3D maze. Nothing to see here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I read the bad reviews, I thought I had an idea of what was going to happen in this game, "I just wander around n' look at weird ♥♥♥♥, good deal". But I was very horribly wrong. You just slowly meander through a maze of god awful disgusting indistinguishable textures while the exact same character model is placed everywhere. I unknowingly flew over the invisible walls on the second map and couldn't make it back in to another stupid piece of ♥♥♥♥ maze. And the noises... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no words. Idon'teven/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A quirky space-walking simulator, there's not much else to say about this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's slow, it's boring, it's not in any way funny or clever. Nor is it actually satiric or contemplative, despite what the developer claims. The way it works is, you float extremely slowly through three confusing but dull maps, looking for the four special floating objects that are secreted here and there. The scenery around you is surreal, but not in an exciting, interesting or thought-provoking way. Just in an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Make sure you pick up some LSD before you play this game, so that it makes more sense... if there is any.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So let´s bring some light into the mysterious dark that is "Hippocampal: The White Sofa": It is a completely self-aware and funny exploration game that has a VERY special, quiet and somehow hidden kind of humour that I enjoyed and that mixes up with goofy moments whenever you accomplish a target. It´s very short and the atmosphere is unique, yet it may not be worth the asked price. The gameplay is simple at best, confusing at first, but once you ge the grip of it it somehow "works". The physics…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Hippocampal is a satiric, contemplative game" No, it's not. It's a confusing "find the hidden objects game". You float slowly through incoherent levels filled with neon lights, alien creatures, and badly fitting music and sound effects. Your actual goals are very unclear and even if you do figure out what to do there is no payoff: you simply collect the crap in one level and are dumped in the next one following a weird cutscene. On top of that the game is unstable. For such a small game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you enjoy listening to Hansen, MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice? Do you enjoy throwing away your loose change? Do you enjoy watching bad movies from the 80's on VHS? If you answered yes to any of these questions I'd recommend you stop reading my review and immediately purchase this game, you'll love it. For the rest of us do yourself a favor, click not interested and by all means, even during a steam sale, when you see it for 49 cent... don't buy it.. So my warning wasn't enough and you want…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Artistic. Masterpiece. Mindblowing. Potato. None of these words fully describe the mindblowing experience that is The White Sofa. Simply putting, this game has no equal, and I guarantee you've never played anything quite like it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no idea what the ♥♥♥♥ this game is!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game makes gamers mad without even doing anything and that's the best part about it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, the game is a mess in every aspect. It's even torturous to play because of how poorly it runs and how poorly it controls. If the gameplay was more fluid I would only be left bewildered (although not in a good way), because this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ strange. In a pointless sort of strange. What am I doing, what is this mess on my screen, why is there now a rave going on, wtf was that thing... why seahorse, why have you done this to me, why. Sadly though, simply moving around the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I honestly have no idea what I just played, but it was fun....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where do i even start with this "game". The level design is awful, all of the walls and floors are some kind of bar texture which hurts your eyes and makes it hard to see anyway. The game doesn't make any sense at all, there are "enemies" on walls, ceilings and floors which can't seem to hurt you but i did find out that if you stand still infront of them they try to hit you. Also a feature i haven't seen mentioned in the other reviews is that this is literally moonbase alpha, by accident i hit…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It could be worse. If someone MADE you play this with a broken keyboard and mouse while they whipped you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 This is real life
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful. Not worth even $0.01. Whoever made this should not be allowed to make any more games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WHATA F DID I JUST BOUGHT? This is more psycho than NPPD. Luckly i paid cents for it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absurd, I love it. A truly surreal expirience and I haven't even finished it yet.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can't make ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games and call them satirical to justify their existence.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I found this in my library. It seems that I got it in an old bundle years ago. The name didn't ring any bell. I clicked on "Store Page" before installing it half sure that the page wouldn't exist anymore, but it did, and the game preview was quite different from anything I tried to picture out of a sea creature on an Ikea piece of equipment. And then, in the corner of my eyes, a color I am not used to see much showing "Mostly Negative" reviews... At this point I was too far in to just forget…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very immersive experience that wont leave you asking for more
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What the hell is this even?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Floatin' in some weirdness and I have to say, it's pretty nice. Think of it as a strange mental vacation.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is trolling the consumer in the most garish way I've ever seen. You get a hour of slowly floating around different nonsensical, difficult to navigate places at a snail's pace, collecting collectibles, and then game over. There are no redeeming qualities to this piece of software in the slightest. No commentary, no pleasing visuals, no engaging gameplay. Nothing. Avoid, even if heavily discounted.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →funy game jus like my fav game bf heroes ))
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game could be summed up simply with: What The ♥♥♥♥. Not an angry WTF, but a confused one. This game is a nonsensical jabbering, coalesced into a mass of indecipherable parodic satire that makes zero sense to anyone playing it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hippocampal: The White Sofa is an experimental exploration title developed by Freegamer and published by Strategy First that leans heavily into abstraction, symbolism, and ambiguity. Rather than offering structured objectives or conventional gameplay systems, it presents itself as a surreal journey through fragmented environments that feel more like manifestations of memory and subconscious thought than physical spaces. The experience positions itself closer to interactive art than traditional…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really wanted to like this game but in the end i couldn't. i like the atmospheric moody vibe and all. but i couldn't find all the damn items. i found 3 out of 4 and nothing happened. the level is crazy confusing with that lousy textures/walls that are exactly the same so you can't tell where you are going. i didn't like moving so slow but that's minor compared to the major flaw of the game which is that it just wasnt very interesting nor fun. i played for about an hour and a half and gave…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I knew this was a very abstract, low-budget, conceptual game before booting it up, and can appreciate brief, minimalistic gaming experiences. Unfortunately the effects and scenes / levels this game generates to navigate are pretty bland and the immersion is lost as you drift down boring corridors with what look like Silent Hill Monster Spacemen floating about and twitching in the background. The game does very little to make the player interested in navigating to the next scene, with the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very interesting game.. What is really going on? Why am i spending my free time on this? The real question is... can you keep your sanity with the cringe worthy sound effects after you reach one the checkpoints? If you have absolutely nothing else to do .. give this a try. I finished it and it still makes very little sense at all..Maybie you'll figure it out?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →boring. quite possibly worst money spent on steam to date. game tried way to hard to be creepy and was just bad. controls were unresponsive as well. would not recommend to even my enemies.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Strange? Abstract? Terrifying? Terrible? Nonsensical? There are more than handful of words that can describe Hippocampal. Think a walking simulator glued unto terrible and floaty movement on top of having to sluggishly move through an avant-garde hedge maze of peculiar assortment of rubbish. If this was a free thing I'd be willing to half heartedly recommend it for the trippy soundscapes and visuals but don't be stupid like me and pay a cent for it. You're not missing out on anything remotely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Piece of art? more like bad very BAD acid trip. i have brain freeze from this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best game ever!!! Period! on drugs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2deep4u indie explorational game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is not bad enough to be good, or funny. Its just.... bad. It is not "contemplative" or "satirical" as the game describes itself. It is just a mess, and a bore, sorry! I can think of a lot more games to buy for $5.50. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=474158848
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Appearantly I beat it... Says 100% yet I have no freaking idea what is going on or what I even did. I hate this game. Walked around and collected an innertube, shovel, and a bucket. Saw a seahorse and a headless winged alien creature float whenever I walked into them (all this in like 20 minutes of walking). Walking around and exploring is nice, but this game has the same repeated textures all over, poor lighting, and its really hard to see where you are going. I got stuck at some point in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a complete, utter waste of time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Built with UDK has stopped working Simulator 2011
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →didnt like anything about this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hated it until I found the text to speech. Here comes another chinese earthquake, ebrbrbbrrbrbbrbrbrbr.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Circadian Disruption Alters Rhythmic Gene Expression in the Hippocampus Without Changing Overall Levels Follow us and never miss a story. https://1ban.news/circadian-rhythm-disruption-hippocampal-gene-expression-rats/ #1ban #circadian #rhythm #disruption #hippocampal #sleep
unlabelledView post →Had this game was removed from my steam library IDK why was a odd game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →@thetransmitter Oh yes - like this (#Hippocampal #ThetaSequences): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8wKl5PcLU Or this (#HippocampalReplay): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0kD2RSejRo (source: #vanDerMeerLab)
unlabelledView post →I purchased the game in June 2014 because I had thought it looks like a funny, absurdist game experience that parodies horror and exploration games of the time. Then I forgot about it. At the beginning of 2023 I discovered it again in my library and decided to play it as I was looking for the most obscure games around. I regret every second of it. The game is about finding hidden objects in an absurd environment, which is fair enough, but it starts with awful controls, inconsistent graphics,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Surreal experience, I liked it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember playing this game. Made me feel physically sick from disorientation.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is terrible, isn't fun and is poorly made.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Strange, Short but fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If it hadn't taken me 36 minutes to beat, I probably would've removed it from my Steam account. Still tempted to honestly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not worth the €1 I paid for it. Nice though
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is some kind of experience, but it isn't worth more than maybe 50 cents.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Adventure - WS - Walking Simulator Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Will make you physically sick, Buggy, Narratively meaningless, An absolute chore to play This is what would happen if a dev made a bad walking simulator then felt spiteful and added a bunch of irritation on top of his bad game to make sure that no enjoyment could ever be obtained out of his product. Can get stuck on invisible edges - be pulled or prevented from going in directions for no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here's some advice to anyone attempting a "paody" regardless of the medium. If you're going for a parody the thing you create needs to, in some way, eleviate itself above the thing your parodying. ARE YOU HEARING ME GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY?!?!?
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