The Basement Collection
Worth it · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99. Typically $1.23 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 1,685
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.2h
- To 100%
- 33.5h 5.4x the story
- Finish
- 22% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 53
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 December 2018
- Sale every
- 95d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
42% start to 22% 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
The value story
The value story
45 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including gravilon ($2.99, scores 5) and The Bridge ($9.99, scores 66).
More about The Basement Collection
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 360 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 293 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
6.2 hours to finish it, 34 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
What players say
Dunno what to say other than the games are excellent and even if i am not replaying this after reaching 100%, i had a good time and have remembered these games for years.
2 more reviews
A collection of all of Edmund's greatest flash games. It's fun to go back and see how far he's come.
genuinely enjoyed it I really like how it has edmunds's old drawings and stuff it's a really good game if you are a fun of his and don't expect to find a game in here the size of Isaac or SMB. Time fckuk was a bit hard at times and had one of the most difficult achievents i have ever had to do and since you can't save during the unknown I had to play for about 5 hours straight. Meatboy was surprisingly not as fun as...
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About the game
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 9800 +, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Basement Collection scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214790/the-basement-collectionReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.