Escape First Alchemist ⚗️
Fair · Multiplayer · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 1,134
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reach, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 31 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 May 2025
- Sale every
- 43d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
96% start to 16% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was May 2025. Across all 31 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, We Were Here Forever ($17.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Tales of Escape (free, scores 7).
More about Escape First Alchemist ⚗️
8 of the 433 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 330 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 172 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
First-person escape game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 people. Solve riddles of a reclusive alchemist that trapped you in his workshop. Brew potions and overcome challenges as he laughs at your failures and makes light of your successes...But what if things are not what they seem?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia 1050/AMD equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Escape First Alchemist ⚗️ scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2094320/escape-first-alchemistReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.