The Game Census
Room 817: Director's Cut cover art

Room 817: Director's Cut

Bormak Studio · 2024-04-21

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 21, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 08, 2023 (Android)

Welcome to one of the scariest old-school horror games. Here, you're not the predator, but the prey. Any mistake will cost you your life. Hide, solve puzzles, explore, and embrace the inevitable terror. The Ancient horror lurks, awaiting you. Based on true events.

79%
positive of 76 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 62% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 59% of 16,269 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 76 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 7 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
202020242026Week of 2024-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$0.492024-04-212026-07-092024-04-21 — best price $3.992024-06-17 — best price $3.192024-06-24 — best price $3.992024-06-27 — best price $2.392024-07-11 — best price $3.992024-07-29 — best price $3.392024-08-05 — best price $3.992024-09-09 — best price $3.192024-09-16 — best price $3.992024-10-21 — best price $3.192024-10-28 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $3.992024-12-09 — best price $3.192024-12-16 — best price $3.992024-12-20 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $3.992025-02-28 — best price $7.992025-06-27 — best price $5.592025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-09-17 — best price $5.592025-09-22 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $2.392025-10-06 — best price $7.992025-10-27 — best price $2.392025-11-03 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $2.392026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-03-19 — best price $3.192026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-05-03 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

19 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Finnish, Indonesian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian…

Player tags

1990'sActionHorrorPuzzleMysteryThrillerRealisticStory RichEscape RoomFirst-Person

Census log

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

Players also track

COLINA: LegacyCASE 2: Animatronics SurvivalBendy and the Dark RevivalHouseBye Sweet Carole

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗