Save Room - The Merchant
Skip · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $2.39.
- Length
- 4h 4.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 230 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 20% off today.
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
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
About the game
Immerse yourself in the Save Room, a place of safety and respite. Master inventory management while interacting with the enigmatic merchant. Buy, sell, and acquire crucial items to conquer every challenge. Not only will you need cash, but you'll need GUTS to finish this game!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.39 at 20 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. On the same math Save Room - Organization Puzzle ($2.99, scores 94) and Night Raider ($3.17, scores 60) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Save Room - The Merchant
Of the 218 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
98% start to 15% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 14:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
You know, I really liked Save Room. A fun little puzzle game based on RE4's grid inventory system, with set items and specific solutions, it was a really fun little simple game. You know what's a really quick way to make those fun little simple puzzles annoying? Add in unnecessary menuing to every single puzzle in the game, make every puzzle take substantially longer by virtue of practically having to solve them...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
At first, I wasn't sure why this game had so many negative reviews because the first game is actually really good. But after playing it, I now know why. The game is very tedious, the merchant only serves to force you to fill in the inventory screen twice; once for treasures, and again for the actual items you need. It's extremely buggy, buying items in bulk causes the game to give you more money than the actual...
the first Save Room game was fun because it was just inventory management, but The Merchant is incredibly tedious, and i typically like tedious stuff. having to solve every puzzle twice just to go in and out of menus several times for all 40 levels is clunky. usually i'd just commit to finishing the game for the achievements but idk if i can bring myself to do that for this one
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Save Room - The Merchant scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2326020/save-room-the-merchantReviews 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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.