Basement on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Basement is a strategy, management and crime game developed and published by Halfbus.
Released on November 10th 2019 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 3 languages: English, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 2,201 reviews of which 1,552 were positive and 649 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Basement into these genres:

Strategy Management Crime Simulation Base-Building Resource Management Building Difficult Dark Comedy Sandbox Pixel Graphics Great Soundtrack 2D RTS Singleplayer 1990's Indie Economy Dark Humor Action

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP SP2+
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: Direct X9.0c Compatible Card
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 150 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.9+
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ Support, with 256MB of RAM
Storage: 150 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04+
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ Support, with 256MB of RAM
Storage: 150 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025

fun drug dealer sandbox managment game. 8/10 if you bored n looking for something to play

Feb. 2025

is fun but also hard. like it says in the begining The game will fuck you and you just gotta fuck it back. though i did softlock myself and had to restart the second mission after i found out how to cheese fighting through tupo and miguels bases

Nov. 2024

It's an athmospheric little management game about the competetive world of the illicit medication complex with a focus on means of production and personnel management. Soundtrack, artstyle, gameplay and technical stability are all to my liking. I've returned to this little gem often over the years and the only critique is, that it leaves you wanting for more... which is good, except there isn't more to come.

Sept. 2024

I highly suggest this game for the people who want to make drugs in a basement setting and send out goons to beat up other goons only suggestion for some sort of coop type of mode or able to allow for workshop for people to make mods for this game 10/10 highly suggest this game

May 2024

So, just completed this and got the achievements so now's the time. What did I think of it? Well I decided to put this into my offline games because I've been really itching to play a strategy sim for quite some time. Especially after seeing Undead Inc and thinking that it looks amazing! But I have to hold my cash back. Especially as opening reviews haven't been too...friendly towards it, but enough of that game what about this one? The game is the story of someone who has an idea for a video game, however, he's unable to impress any investors and he has no money to make that dream possible, so he just goes out to get high and once he does he has the idea from his friend to get into the dealing trade! After this we are taken on a story where we deal in all kinds of illicit substances and keep getting blocked whenever we try to build up the cash to hire our programmers, artists and writers for the game as we get involved in a turf war, the police and even the biggest of all evils. Bitcoin! The story has it's moments and can be a little funny, but I often found it not that funny, though the one thing I loved was the building up your group, selling/producing drugs to better equip your people before you start clearing up the map and taking everyone out! I have my own petpeeves however. You are expected to get sales and depending on upgrades and such, you may not get that many sale a day where as the AI has no such restriction and merely by taking over properties, they have an increased income, allowing them to attack you and others with more people. They don't have to mess around with dealers to sell the stuff, producers to make the various products and take part in researching so they get a slight advantage there in regards to attacking since they seem to have no other actual function, which feels weird. It's like if an enemy in Command & Conquer had no harvesters, yet were still getting money to produce units to attack you with. I still had fun with it though and I felt like some of the missions flew in the face of what you're taught earlier on, such as one requiring you don't sell anything, but have to produce to sell wholesale or how you get discovered if you have anything over $100 (most buildings and upgrades and units cost far more than this) which in these cases, I've had to look up solutions online which isn't fun. It makes you feel like it's your fault and that you were meant to adapt to these new instructions without being told how to deal with it...or maybe that's my Autism creating a block there... Just checked it's price (as of 24/05/2024) and got to say, I think it's a little high for what you ultimately get. I've played cheaper and better RTS games out there. That said, however, there is a Sandbox mode where you can choose to have all kinds of buildings set up (though it's often random, only dictated by size) so you can truly play it endlessly if you want and set the AI to 3 so you can fight all the main villains in the game at once! There's also fun unique events that happen too, which are certainly worth a chuckle or at least gaining more money to keep expanding. It's not a great game, but it did scratch that itch I had and would recommend it when discounted. It's certainly not bad, but it didn't really wow me much. Especially as your units can only equip 1 item, making things limited and often meaning that I NEVER choose certain items because, why would I bother with them when I can get a more powerful weapon?

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16.79€

6.9

1,552

649

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Developer

Halfbus

Publisher

Halfbus

Release 10 Nov 2019

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