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Welcome to Basingstoke

Puppygames · 2018-04-27

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 27, 2018 (Mac), Apr 27, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 27, 2018 (Linux), Aug 28, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

Basingstoke is a tense rogue-like that mixes stealth and arcade action. Explore the smouldering ruins of Basingstoke, a world of reanimated undead and ferocious alien monsters. Scavenge as you go, crafting equipment to help you in your mission: escape Basingstoke!

Welcome to Basingstoke is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2018, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (70% of 422 reviews).

0
playing now
70%
positive of 422 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Welcome to Basingstoke is a roguelike and stealth video game developed and published by Puppy Games. It was released on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS on 27 April 2018. Its name was changed when it was released on PS5 on August 28, 2025.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 422 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at GOG (2025-10-28) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 96 of 98 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920182026Week of 2018-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$2.992018-04-272026-10-142018-04-27 — best price $25.492018-10-15 — best price $29.992019-01-04 — best price $29.992019-06-18 — best price $29.992019-11-26 — best price $9.592020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-06-15 — best price $29.992020-11-02 — best price $29.992021-04-30 — best price $9.892021-11-01 — best price $29.992022-02-02 — best price $29.992022-06-23 — best price $17.492022-11-18 — best price $2.992023-05-05 — best price $14.992023-07-31 — best price $34.992023-11-14 — best price $7.492024-04-17 — best price $7.492024-09-10 — best price $29.992024-12-04 — best price $29.992025-02-27 — best price $29.992025-04-21 — best price $34.992025-08-01 — best price $12.892025-09-25 — best price $10.192025-11-06 — best price $29.992026-01-03 — best price $6.692026-02-23 — best price $9.992026-05-01 — best price $9.992026-08-01 — best price $9.992026-09-02 — best price $4.992026-09-12 — best price $4.992026-09-22 — best price $9.992026-10-02 — best price $4.992026-10-12 — best price $3.992026-10-14 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1102026-07-01 — 9 pageviews2026-07-04 — 4 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 8 pageviews2026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 5 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-30 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 4 pageviews2026-08-05 — 2 pageviews2026-08-08 — 4 pageviews2026-08-11 — 1 pageviews2026-08-14 — 8 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1 pageviews2026-08-24 — 2 pageviews2026-08-27 — 1 pageviews2026-08-30 — 2 pageviews2026-09-02 — 6 pageviews2026-09-05 — 3 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-11 — 4 pageviews2026-09-14 — 5 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-20 — 4 pageviews2026-09-23 — 2 pageviews2026-09-26 — 3 pageviews2026-09-29 — 1 pageviews2026-10-02 — 5 pageviews2026-10-05 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

41
achievements tracked
43.2%
earned "Lock in!"
4.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8431%41
PS5 (PlayStation)2015%42

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

Player tags

IndieActionStealthZombiesCraftingSurvivalAdventureDifficultRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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