Cellar

Cellar

Fair · Narrative · 2016

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.6h 1.5h to 100%
Value
$1.65/hr
Reviews
79% of 223 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 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

Holding it back
Value$1.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% 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

Short arcade game with handcrafted pixel art graphics. You play as Lily who traverses the dark corners of the basement under her house in search of her lost teddy bear. Inspired by some of the greatest fears from our childhood.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GPU with 512 MB Video RAM. Runs on Windows, Linux.

The value story

50 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bot Vice ($4.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Ratty Catty ($4.49, scores 15).

More about Cellar

Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 123 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.

0.6 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.

The drop-off

6% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

It's dark, it's spooky, it's full of monsters... basically find the key and then find the exit type of game. You can't see far, so you have to memorize the whole stage. Might look simple but gameplay is somewhat engaging. Hard to recommend but if you played games like Yomawari it might be worth checking out.
👾 🅼 🅰❎👾Recommendedafter 4.8hJan 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Cellar scores 51/100 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/449060/cellar
Embed the live badge

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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVertical Skull Games
PublisherVertical Skull Games
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements15