Welcome to Basingstoke
Skip · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.8h 12.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 423 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
Basingstoke is a tense rogue-like that mixes stealth and arcade action. Explore the smouldering ruins of Basingstoke, a world of reanimated undead and ferocious alien monsters. Scavenge as you go, crafting equipment to help you in your mission: escape Basingstoke!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 550 or higher with 2GB Memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
56 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Flame in the Flood ($2.24, scores 43) and Roguelands ($9.99, scores 52) both outscore it.
More about Welcome to Basingstoke
HowLongToBeat players log 5.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 2.1 times as much.
The drop-off
43% start to 4% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
surprisingly charming and polished game, props to devs still updating (or just finished updating) it, if it weren't for the name being previously impossible to find on steam search im sure this would've gotten more attention, im also gonna be an arsehole and ask for permadeath hardcore mode.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
luv me bangas an' mash luv gud level design an fouken luv me bri'un m8 god bless fumbs up from me ⠀⠀⠀
TL:DR; Its not an action game, its a stealth game- or at least the majority of it is. Misadvertised but still good for what it is, but not what I wanted. The first big negative here is that this game was misadvertised. I don't think it was malicious or intentional, but they really oversold the action angle here. This is a strict stealth game, you die in one hit and if you're running and gunning you're about to die...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Welcome to Basingstoke scores 23/100 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/336940/welcome-to-basingstokeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.