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B.E.S.T cover art

B.E.S.T

Dolyla · Dolydev · 2025-08-29

SteamGOG

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Feb 17, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

B.E.S.T is an adult visual novel where romance, competition, and betrayal intertwine. 100 participants. $500,000 at stake: who will you trust? Make your choices, build your relationships, seduce or betray… and become the last one standing.

B.E.S.T is an Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2025, priced at $11.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 471 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

78%
positive of 485 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

Freshly arrived in the United States for a semester in Economics and Marketing, you’re thrown into a one-of-a-kind competition: the B.E.S.T. 100 participants. $500,000 on the line. Only one winner. It’s up to you to build alliances, seduce your partners, and decide who deserves your trust… and who deserves betrayal.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 91 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.7k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 485 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.59-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.59 at GOG (2026-05-06)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 71 of 87 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620242026Week of 2024-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$3.592024-01-182026-10-142024-01-18 — best price $9.952024-03-27 — best price $9.592024-06-27 — best price $8.992024-09-30 — best price $8.992024-11-27 — best price $8.392025-01-06 — best price $8.392025-03-13 — best price $7.792025-05-11 — best price $7.192025-07-14 — best price $8.392025-09-29 — best price $8.392025-10-28 — best price $5.992025-12-11 — best price $4.792026-01-15 — best price $4.792026-02-28 — best price $11.992026-03-16 — best price $11.992026-03-27 — best price $5.992026-05-06 — best price $3.592026-06-06 — best price $5.992026-07-13 — best price $3.592026-08-14 — best price $3.592026-08-30 — best price $3.592026-09-03 — best price $3.592026-09-07 — best price $3.592026-09-11 — best price $3.592026-09-15 — best price $3.592026-09-19 — best price $3.592026-09-23 — best price $11.992026-09-27 — best price $3.592026-10-01 — best price $3.592026-10-05 — best price $3.592026-10-09 — best price $3.592026-10-13 — best price $3.592026-10-14 — best price $3.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
93.8%
earned "Show must go on !"
41.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Latin America, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, German, Korean, Polish, Turkish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-01-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)15514%35

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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