Aperture Desk Job
Worth it · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games.
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
The value story
On value it 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, Portal 2 ($9.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Counter-Strike Nexon (free, scores 17).
At 0.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
11 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 27, 10:45 UTC.
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 10:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Aperture Desk Job scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 25,017 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1902490/aperture-desk-jobReviews 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 Sep 26.
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