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Box of Broken Nails

Cdodge · 2025-11-11

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 12, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.

98%
positive of 144 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 106 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity up 864% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.9k–6.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 144 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
959520252026Week of 2025-11-12: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 95 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-19: 17 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.492025-11-122026-07-092025-11-12 — best price $4.242025-11-25 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.492026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-01-17 — best price $3.492026-01-31 — best price $4.992026-03-02 — best price $3.492026-03-09 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $3.492026-04-20 — best price $4.992026-05-25 — best price $3.492026-06-01 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundSurround SoundFamily Sharing

27 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish, Indonesian…

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

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