Antichamber
Fair · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $7.19, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.9h
- Value
- $3.39/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA 8000 series or higher (Shader Model 3 Compatible), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2015. It has been discounted 60 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales. 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 11 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.19. The record reaches that level 43 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Broken Reality ($3.74, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats NaissanceE (free, scores 64).
82 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 519 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,063 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Players
11 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 pleasant romp through non-euclidian space. this game has stuck with me ever since i saw a playthrough of it around the time it first came out, and even now i'm still sometimes amazed by how the rooms connect. finding some of those dev rooms really makes my head hurt,,,
Something I'll just be chipping away at for some time, this game is easy to get into but difficult to beat (at least for me) which is just the right level of challenge to keep me engaged.
Some people call videogames 'mindless fun'. Well, in this game, you do lose your mind, but you don't exactly have 'fun'. 11/10 masterpiece I bought this when I was 11 in 2013 and still play it.
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Antichamber scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/219890/antichamberThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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