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The Basement Ritual

Stray Fox Games · 2025-01-05

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 05, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Basement Ritual is a short indie horror game where you have been kidnapped and must escape a cult’s basement premises solving puzzles and hiding from a demonic creature.

0
playing now
62%
positive of 13 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-09-12 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 92% of 13,726 Casual games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520252026Week of 2025-01-06: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-06: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-02: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$1.192025-01-062026-08-102025-01-06 — best price $2.692025-01-19 — best price $2.992025-02-19 — best price $2.602025-02-26 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.392025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-03-31 — best price $2.242025-04-07 — best price $2.992025-05-12 — best price $2.092025-05-19 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $1.942025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-07-14 — best price $2.092025-07-21 — best price $2.992025-08-25 — best price $1.942025-09-01 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.792025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-10-13 — best price $1.792025-10-20 — best price $2.992025-11-24 — best price $1.642025-12-01 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $1.492026-01-12 — best price $2.992026-02-16 — best price $1.492026-02-23 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.192026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-03-30 — best price $2.242026-04-06 — best price $2.992026-05-11 — best price $2.242026-05-18 — best price $2.992026-06-22 — best price $2.242026-06-29 — best price $2.992026-08-03 — best price $1.492026-08-10 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

9
achievements tracked
94.1%
earned "Wakey Wakey"
23.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian, Japanese

Player tags

3DShortCasualDemonsHorrorLinearAdventureAtmosphericFirst-PersonSingleplayer

Census log

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

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