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Budget Cuts cover art

Budget Cuts

Neat Corporation · 2018-06-14

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ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 14, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 25, 2020 (PlayStation VR), May 31, 2018 (SteamVR), May 31, 2018 (Oculus VR)

Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game where you dexterously zip, sneak or rambo your way forward through thrilling, oil-splatter filled combat!

4
playing now
80%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Budget Cuts is an independent virtual reality stealth game developed and published by Swedish studio Neat Corporation. The player is tasked with escaping an office building using a portal device while evading detection from robotic managers. Neat Corporation made a demo in 2016 for a showcase with Valve Software with an initial release date the same year, and eventually released on Steam in 2018.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 47k–112k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,874 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 5 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 19:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$5.992018-06-222026-05-132018-06-22 — best price $29.992018-10-23 — best price $29.992018-11-19 — best price $29.992018-12-10 — best price $23.992019-01-03 — best price $29.992019-02-05 — best price $20.992019-02-19 — best price $29.992019-05-10 — best price $20.992019-05-28 — best price $29.992019-07-19 — best price $14.992019-09-17 — best price $29.992019-10-28 — best price $14.992019-12-03 — best price $29.992020-04-27 — best price $16.492020-07-09 — best price $29.992020-10-01 — best price $20.092020-11-02 — best price $29.992020-12-01 — best price $14.992021-01-05 — best price $29.992021-06-24 — best price $14.992021-07-30 — best price $29.992021-11-24 — best price $16.492022-01-05 — best price $29.992022-04-25 — best price $7.492022-07-07 — best price $29.992022-11-22 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-05-01 — best price $29.992023-07-24 — best price $7.492025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-05-06 — best price $11.992026-05-13 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4322026-05-31 — 10 pageviews2026-06-03 — 7 pageviews2026-06-06 — 9 pageviews2026-06-09 — 13 pageviews2026-06-12 — 17 pageviews2026-06-15 — 14 pageviews2026-06-18 — 11 pageviews2026-06-21 — 10 pageviews2026-06-24 — 15 pageviews2026-06-27 — 13 pageviews2026-06-30 — 12 pageviews2026-07-03 — 9 pageviews2026-07-06 — 11 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 14 pageviews2026-07-15 — 11 pageviews2026-07-18 — 8 pageviews2026-07-21 — 6 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 8 pageviews2026-08-05 — 13 pageviews2026-08-08 — 4 pageviews2026-08-11 — 9 pageviews2026-08-14 — 11 pageviews2026-08-17 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 10 pageviews2026-08-23 — 8 pageviews2026-08-26 — 9 pageviews2026-08-28 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
47.6%
earned "Missing Link"
6.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyCaptions availableVR SupportSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,6131%30
PS4, PS VR (PlayStation)39013%40

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

Player tags

VRFPSIndieActionHorrorRobotsSci-fiStealthColorfulAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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