The Room VR: A Dark Matter
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$24.99Fair
On its price record
$8.09BANGER
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $6.58/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti/AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.24, set in July 2025. It has been discounted 44 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. It becomes a BANGER at $8.09, a level the record has reached 8 times.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Room 4: Old Sins ($8.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Firmament ($34.99, scores 21).
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 389 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 213 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to 41% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Short and sweet puzzling! Not too easy, not too hard. You'll be surprised what you miss or forget. Pretty flawless played through Air Link on Quest 3.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Room VR: A Dark Matter scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1104380/the-room-vr-a-dark-matterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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