The Basement Collection
Worth it · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 9800 +, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
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The value story
December 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. 44 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 14 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. 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).
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 8. Of the 360 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 292 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, 35 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
42% start to 22% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A handful of classic Flash games in a neat bundle. Some great ones that later grew into their own successful game series, some solid ones that still scratch the itch a decade or two later, and a few duds. If nothing else, it's a nice way to preserve a tiny bit of gaming history, even the less-than-great stuff. 5.4/10
i cant believe time fcuk took 20 hours of my life (still havent beaten unknown that achievement is actually evil)
these games are so ♥♥♥ you're better off larping them, ESPECIALLY flash meat boy
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Basement Collection scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214790/the-basement-collectionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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