Samsara Room

Samsara Room

BANGER · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

A BANGER, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
97% of 10,288
Genre rank
Top 1% Narrative

Time and effort

Main story
1.4h
To 100%
1.6h 1.1x the story
Achievements
8

Players and genre

Online
21 now
Recent reviews
94% 30 days
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

77% start to 19% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake: Roots ($3.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Rusty Lake Paradise ($3.99, scores 91).

It is still busy. 21 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 7, 23:46 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks.

More about Samsara Room

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 123 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Samsara Room scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1281800/samsara-room
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 16. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperRusty Lake
PublisherRusty Lake
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8