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Aperture Desk Job cover art

Aperture Desk Job

Valve · 2022-03-01

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualFree To Play

Franchise: Portal · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 01, 2022 (Linux), Mar 01, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games.

95%
positive of 25k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
76/100
IGDB user rating (91 ratings)
0.7h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
Aperture Desk Job is a 2022 action game developed and published by Valve. Set in Aperture Science of the Portal games, the player controls a character who inspects products while in front of a desk with a monitor that resembles the Steam Deck console, and while being aided by an artificial intelligence (AI) core. J. K. Simmons reprises his role as Cave Johnson while Nate Bargatze voices Grady, the AI core.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 914 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~114/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (10,688 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 14,229 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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10k10k20222026Week of 2022-03-01: 10,180 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 508 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,020 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 615 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 474 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 508 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 442 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 343 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2,934 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 428 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 480 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 298 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 329 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 319 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 28 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportStereo SoundFamily Sharing

27 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian…

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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