Budget Cuts
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970/1060 or Radeon RX 480. Windows only.
Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game where you dexterously zip, sneak or rambo your way forward through thrilling, oil-splatter filled combat!
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was December 2025. 35 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 47 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach ($39.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Duck Season ($19.99, scores 43).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 442 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 386 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
VR games are a dying species so I wont criticise it too hard, but budget cuts is definitely showing its age. Its still fine, it still functions and for VR that's really all you can ask for I suppose. At the very least its a interesting game mechanically and if under the right conditions can be exceptionally enjoyable. It's just a shame it has some iffy compatibility and accessibility issues and being long abandoned...
The game is way too confusing at times. Don't get me wrong I love the physics and it is kinda satisfactory but sometimes you'll just get stuck and there's nothing telling you where to go or what to do
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Cite this score
Budget Cuts scores 44/100 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/400940/budget-cutsReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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