Mimic: Social Deduction Horror Price and Release Date (Oct 2026)

Mimic is listed on Steam as released October 27, 2026 in Early Access at $6.59, discounted 40% from a $10.99 base price, developed by Ryan Laley Games.

VERIFIED Source: Steam store page (appid 2606850), checked 2026-10-27

The game's own short description calls it an asymmetrical online survival horror game for up to 10 players, where you solve objectives while a killer Android hunts the crew and one player hunts them as the Mimic.

VERIFIED Source: Steam store page (appid 2606850), checked 2026-10-27

Private lobbies hold up to 9 friends, and optional Affixes such as one-hit kills, permanent fire or invisible Mimics can be switched on to change a match.

VERIFIED Source: Steam store page (appid 2606850), checked 2026-10-27

What Mimic is

Mimic is an asymmetrical multiplayer social-deduction horror game built around the question the store page opens with: who is human, and who is the Mimic?

Up to 10 players share one round, and every player is given a secret role that sets a different win condition rather than a shared team goal.

There are no weapons to fight back with, so survival comes from reading your environment, talking to other players and steering the NPC Android that patrols the ship.

The setting is a failing ship called the Icarus, described as low on oxygen with one crew member who is not what they seem.

The three roles and how a round runs

The Crew's job is to repair the ship's systems and escape, ideally after working out which of them is the threat.

The Agent is a corporate shadow with a private agenda: not the monster, but not a hero either, whose goal is to sabotage the mission and keep the Mimic alive.

The Mimic is an evolving biological terror that blends in, builds trust, changes form and strikes when players are most vulnerable, hunting either directly in the vents or by luring the Android onto the crew.

Suspicion is a mechanic, not just a vibe: you point at a suspect and the Android hunts that player down, and the store page notes that getting an innocent crewmate killed only helps the Mimic.

Who it suits, and what it is closest to

The store page positions private lobbies as the way to get the ultimate "The Thing" style experience, which is the only comparison it makes to another work (BOUNDED: official Steam description, checked 2026-10-27).

It pitches itself at groups who want voice-driven paranoia rather than action: proximity chat is explicitly part of the design, and lying is treated as a legitimate tool (BOUNDED: official Steam description, checked 2026-10-27).

Replayability is presented through randomised objectives and secret corporate agendas, so the same lobby is meant to produce different rounds rather than a fixed scenario (BOUNDED: official Steam description, checked 2026-10-27).

It does not describe a single-player campaign, so a solo buyer is not the audience the store page is writing for (BOUNDED: official Steam description, checked 2026-10-27).