God's Basement
Skip · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 2.9h
- Value
- $5.17/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.
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
December 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 76 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Blair Witch ($29.99, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Layers of Fear 2 (2019) ($19.99, scores 21).
Of the 523 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 217 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to 37% 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
What players say
The concept is interesting and has a really unnerving & creepy atmosphere, but the execution is very lacking. The bugs, combined with the weird and obscure triggers needed to progress (some were nearly impossible to activate even with guides, requiring restart of the episode) were genuinely frustrating. James had perfect grades and even a great scholarship offer, so he's supposed to be a smart guy. Why wouldn't he...
This game is boring. The scares, the puzzles, the atmosphere, the 20 minute monologue at the end... everything... BORING! I wanted to quit halfway through but the achievements unlock just from playing the game so i decided to finish it. Was hoping it would get better, or scarier, along the way... it didn't. The music sometimes is a little unsettling but that's all this game has going for it. I got it on sale for a...
I'm not a fan of puzzle games where I have to wait for an extended period, literally stare at things, and retrace my steps over and over. But despite being morally ambiguous; at the end, and I mean by the absolute end- I kinda stopped disliking this game. It vaguely annoyed me until that point. The pay off is.. well.. Okay Erebus, you won me over. I'm late to the party but okay cool lol
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Cite this score
God's Basement scores 28/100 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/753930/god-s-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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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