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Slot Waste

Vinny Roca · 2024-08-01

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Bird view / Isometric, Side view

Releases: May 30, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An episode-length first-person factory simulation. Navigate through a series of 10 unique and weird mini-games. What are you producing and who are you making it for?

84%
positive of 141 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 28 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 25,212 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 141 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2024-11-27) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
333320242026Week of 2024-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.992024-08-012026-07-092024-08-01 — best price $4.992024-10-03 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-06-27 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $1.992026-03-12 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportFamily Sharing

40 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek…

Census log

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

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