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Basement sits in the indie game category with no listed tags or known engine, so buyers have limited genre signals beyond the core classification. It was released in 2019 by halfbus, which is also the publisher, and has 1,678 Steam reviews marked mixed at a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Basement is a 2019 Indie game developed by Halfbus and published by Halfbus. On Steam it has gathered 1,681 player reviews, 70% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Halfbus with publisher Halfbus is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 66,000 to 153,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Basement can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,681
Positive
70%
Steam appid
340150
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.066K to 153K
units (median: 109K)
≈ $749K to $1.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_70% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Basement at roughly 66,000 to 153,000 copies, with a median around 109,000, derived from its 1,681 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
8 observed days · window low $19.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Basement sold?
- indielist estimates Basement has sold between 65,559 and 152,971 units (median 109,265), derived from its 1,681 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Basement?
- Basement was developed by Halfbus and published by Halfbus.
- Who published Basement?
- Basement was published by Halfbus, developed by Halfbus. See Halfbus's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Basement released?
- Basement was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Basement have on Steam?
- Basement has 1,681 Steam reviews, of which 70% are positive.
- Is Basement worth playing?
- Steam players rate Basement 70% positive across 1,681 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Basement can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Halfbus's other releases and Halfbus's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Basement sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Basement page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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