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EscapeVR: The Basement cover art

EscapeVR: The Basement

Five Mind Creations · 2016-11-07

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 07, 2016 (SteamVR)

You find yourself locked in the cell of an unknown basement with nothing else than a bed and a toilet. Can you escape? Explore the environment, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and find your way through a total of 7 rooms to -hopefully- escape the basement of this VR escape room game.

78%
positive of 93 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 13,505 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 93 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.19 at Humble Store (2022-06-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 14 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720162024Week of 2016-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.59$4.192016-11-082026-08-132016-11-08 — best price $9.592017-11-13 — best price $8.992018-10-29 — best price $7.192019-06-26 — best price $7.192019-11-26 — best price $6.292020-01-25 — best price $6.292020-05-25 — best price $6.292020-09-28 — best price $8.992020-12-01 — best price $6.292021-03-01 — best price $6.292021-06-24 — best price $6.292021-10-28 — best price $6.292021-12-22 — best price $5.392022-05-06 — best price $6.992022-07-25 — best price $6.992022-11-07 — best price $4.892023-01-20 — best price $4.192023-03-23 — best price $6.992023-06-29 — best price $4.192023-09-05 — best price $6.992023-11-21 — best price $4.192024-02-05 — best price $4.192024-05-02 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $6.992024-09-30 — best price $4.892024-12-02 — best price $6.992025-01-23 — best price $4.542025-05-09 — best price $4.192025-08-14 — best price $4.192026-01-19 — best price $4.192026-04-13 — best price $4.192026-07-09 — best price $4.892026-08-13 — best price $4.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

VRIndieLogicCasualPuzzleStrategyAdventureBeautifulImmersiveAtmospheric

Census log

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

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