Basement
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.5h
- Value
- $2.10/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X9.0c Compatible Card, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in June 2023. 24 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 69 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Honey, I Joined a Cult ($5.49, scores 34) and Gnomoria ($14.99, scores 30) both outscore it.
Of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 354 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
9.5 hours to finish it, 25 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
46% start to 1% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The story missions tell you nothing, rugpull you when you think you understand, then laugh at you for being an idiot and not reading the dev's mind. I didn't realize I could be bullied by a video game, but here we are. It's a mind game with a neckbeard flexing a superiority complex. It's not fun.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Basement scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/340150/basementReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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