A Chair in a Room : Greenwater

A Chair in a Room : Greenwater

Fair · Strategy · 2016

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $12.49. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.6h 3h to 100%
Value
$4.80/hr
Reviews
83% of 616 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Raising the score
Engagement2% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.80/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 84 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in October 2020. It has been discounted 25 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BONEWORKS ($29.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Rise of Insanity ($9.99, scores 41).

More about A Chair in a Room : Greenwater

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

19% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 02:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

playing on the meta 3, game is good, now the but- if you have Oculus device even though its listed in system requirements you cant turn the flash light on in the game, also nowhere does it explain how to use free locomotion, yes the game started out as a room scale game, not that it says in the description at the top, description in the about this game section does say room scale, also its been up dated with new...
NN-DimensionNot recommendedafter 1.2hJun 2024Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
the VR environment, atmosphere is chilling, scary. but mostly jump scares and the story line is confusing at best. its about 2 hrs. long, game-play. just can't recommend at 2023.
faithkevNot recommendedafter 2.8hNov 2023Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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A Chair in a Room : Greenwater scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/427760/a-chair-in-a-room-greenwater
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 5. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWolf & Wood Interactive Ltd
PublisherWolf & Wood Interactive Ltd
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements11