Booth: A Dystopian Adventure
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.1h 20h to 100%
- Value
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 399 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.44 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
About the game
The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 4.0 compliant graphics, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 52 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 45 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Do Not Feed the Monkeys ($15.99, scores 71) and While We Wait Here ($4.99, scores 75) both outscore it.
More about Booth: A Dystopian Adventure
None of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 8.1 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to 2% 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
I absolutely adored this game, the story, the gameplay, the art style. It was all beautiful. The papers please vibes are top notch, exactly what to play if that's what you're looking for. There is also a small nod to the game too which was nice to see. There are different endings and outcomes which I always enjoy, not too many and not too complicated either which makes the story a lot easier to follow. There were...
2 more reviews
Beautiful story, beautiful world and an okay gameplay similar to papers, please. Loved it, a shame that we don't get to see more of the characters and the world itself.
i come back to this game every once in a while to play another route. this is exactly what i love in a game--repetitive tasks, clear instructions, forming relationships. i haven't been able to find a game that scratches that itch like this one does.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Booth: A Dystopian Adventure scores 67/100 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/761350/booth-a-dystopian-adventureReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.