Fit check
Is Basement worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want a crime-business setting
- Players who enjoy managing workers, production, and equipment
- Players seeking a campaign built around funding an in-game video project
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking direct combat as the main activity rather than business management
- Players who prefer a predictable management setting without gangs, police, or other disruptions
- Players looking for a historical empire or military strategy campaign
Our take on Basement
The defining structure is the link between illegal business management and video game development: the operation's growth exists to finance the project at its center.
What is Basement?
Start in an old basement and run an illegal operation to finance development of a dream video game.
The strategy gameplay involves expanding influence, selling products at higher prices, hiring and improving workers, acquiring equipment and weapons, and upgrading production. The operation faces rival gangs, police, drug users, an investor, and ghosts from the past. Progress combines business management with the risks and unpredictability of drug dealing. The central objective is to grow the operation sufficiently to fund the video game project.
How Basement plays
- 01Basement Operations
- The business begins in an old uncle's basement before expanding its influence.
- 02Production Upgrades
- Workers, equipment, weapons, and production can be improved as the operation develops.
- 03Market Management
- Selling at higher rates is part of the business strategy.
- 04Multiple Threats
- Rival gangs, police, drug users, an investor, and ghosts create opposing pressures.
- 05Game Funding Goal
- Illegal business activity finances the development of a dream video game.
Basement compared to similar games
Basement focuses on building an illegal business to finance a video game, while Xenonauts centers on turn-based squads fighting an alien invasion and recovering technology. Old World covers multi-generational empire leadership, including political marriages and heirs, rather than basement-based production and sales. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation manages vast armies across worlds in a galactic conflict.
Basement: platforms & release
Is Basement worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want a crime-business setting. Skip it if: players seeking direct combat as the main activity rather than business management.
Where can I download Basement?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Basement's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Basement on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
