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Budget Cuts Ultimate

Neat Corporation · 2023-09-20

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Jun 01, 2023 (Meta Quest 2), Jun 01, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), Sep 20, 2023 (SteamVR)

Enter a VR stealth game as the last human amidst robot managers programmed to 'optimize' the workforce. Escape the office alive by sneaking past enemies or unleash a fistful of knives, quivers of arrows, grenades, and coffee mugs onto their unsuspecting circuits!

88%
positive of 122 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.27★
PlayStation Store rating (152 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 27,712 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 122 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 13 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720232026Week of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$8.992023-09-202026-10-082023-09-20 — best price $29.992023-11-02 — best price $29.992023-12-11 — best price $29.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-03-04 — best price $29.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-07-29 — best price $29.992024-11-04 — best price $29.992024-12-04 — best price $29.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-09-23 — best price $29.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-05-06 — best price $15.992026-06-25 — best price $13.992026-07-12 — best price $13.992026-09-14 — best price $11.992026-10-01 — best price $11.992026-10-08 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

52
achievements tracked
63.1%
earned "Genesis"
3.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsVR OnlyFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Player tags

VRActionCombatHorrorPuzzleRobotsArcheryStealthSurvivalAdventure

Census log

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

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