The Room
BANGER · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $0.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.92/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 31,899
- Critics
- 73 players 25 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 2.7h 1.0x the story
- Achievements
- 5
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 October 2017
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 46 now
- Recent reviews
- 99% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 65% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
69 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats The Room Two ($4.99, scores 91).
$7.49 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about The Room
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 25 points higher at 98 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
5 of the 711 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 3,168 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
The Box. You opened it. I first beat this game on my phone 14 years ago, and back then, it felt like black magic. My classmates and I would huddle up five deep just trying to crack all the puzzles. Even now, I still think this game is one of a kind and 100% the best in the "puzzle box" genre. The sequels are great too, but this one is still my favorite. If you read the review and liked it, don't forget to give it a...
2 more reviews
pretty sweet game - i lowkey just sat staring at it most of the time until an idea popped into my mind
Heard a lot about this game when it released and regret waiting for so long to try this gem. Delivers exactly what it advertises, no more and no less. A series of beautifully modelled and intuitively designed puzzle boxes with a side of a story that even manages to take a cool unexpected turn. Well worth its price.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Video card with 512MB of VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Room scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/288160/the-roomReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.