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Bushside Rangers

Daniella G Games · 2025-03-26

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 26, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bushside Rangers® is a first-person survival horror game that forces you to use your wits as you navigate through the dark, dreary depths of an abandoned nature park.

Bushside Rangers is a 2025 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game that is free-to-play, with a Very Positive sentiment from 85% of 261 reviews.

84%
positive of 267 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

Bushside Rangers is an indie survival horror game which places you in the shoes of the reluctant Vera, a young girl who breaks into the abandoned "Bushside Rangers Nature Park" in an attempt to reminisce over it's abrupt closing years ago. Unfortunately for her though, the time she spends in the park becomes longer and longer as she drifts towards the rabbit hole she's slowly but surely intertwining herself into. Throughout her visit to the nature-ridden park, she's forced to fend off against it's old mascots and other horrific foes. Even after years, they're still alive... and they're starvi(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (69 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 27,727 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
595920252026Week of 2025-03-26: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-03-26: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-02: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-02: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-09: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-23: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-30: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-07: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-14: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-23: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-06: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-25: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

12
achievements tracked
77.1%
earned "DEEPER DOWN"
23.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable Difficulty#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed Input1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-04-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5515%12

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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