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Rental

Lonely House · Animita Project · 2024-03-07

Steam

AdventureIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 30, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Rental is a short and spooky adventure game about the dangers of renting a house in an unknown place.

Rental is a free-to-play Adventure, Indie and Free To Play game released in 2024, with a Very Positive sentiment (92% of 5592 reviews).

92%
positive of 5.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
66/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Trailer

Rental trailer thumbnail

The Rental - Official Trailer | HD | IFC Films

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 627 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~78/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 29,989 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20242026Week of 2024-03-01: 1,076 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 418 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 403 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

9
achievements tracked
83%
earned "Incredible Style"
65.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-07 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,39944%9

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

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