Budget Cuts

Budget Cuts

Neat Corporation · June 14, 2018 · Action, Adventure, VR, Indie, Stealth

Buy Budget Cuts from Steam at $14.99 — the cheapest of 5 stores we compare. The cheapest Budget Cuts key from a keyshop is $15.31 at CJS CD Keys.

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$14.99
lowest tracked $5.99
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Where to buy Budget Cuts — official stores

Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$14.99
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Humble Store
Humble Store
Standard Edition · Steam
$29.99
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Cheapest Budget Cuts keys — keyshops

Keyshops are third-party marketplaces — keys are resold and can be region-locked or a different edition. Check the listing's region & edition before buying.

CJS CD Keys
CJS CD Keys
Standard Edition · Steam
$15.31
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Eneba
Standard Edition · Steam
$24.52
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Kinguin
Standard Edition · Steam
$30.08
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Budget Cuts price by region

Budget Cuts costs $8.49 in Georgia (USD), £11.59 in the United Kingdom, €14.79 in Europe (EUR), $14.99 in the United States, CA$19.49 in Canada, A$21.95 in Australia, NZ$21.99 in New Zealand, R$46.99 in Brazil and zł67.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Budget Cuts offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $8.49 $8.49 $15.31 4
United Kingdom £11.59 −9% £12.79 £11.59 4
Europe (EUR) €14.79 €14.79 €21.51 5
United Statesyour region $14.99 $14.99 $15.31 5
Canada CA$19.49 CA$19.49 — 2
Australia A$21.95 A$21.95 — 2
New Zealand NZ$21.99 NZ$21.99 — 2
Brazil R$46.99 R$46.99 — 2
Poland zł67.99 zł67.99 zł120.15 3

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

Trailers & screenshots

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About Budget Cuts

✦ AI summary

Sneak through a dystopian corporate office using your teleportation gun to outwit deadly robots, relying on stealth, throwing knives, and creative use of cover in this VR-exclusive experience. Budget Cuts delivers visceral, immersive VR gameplay that proves the medium's potential with tight mechanics and thrilling combat encounters.

You are an employee at the mega conglomerate TransCorp, and it's your job to stamp papers and file files! Unfortunately for you, TransCorp is an expert in the business of manufacturing cost-cutting robots, and now you are about to be fired.

Built for Virtual Reality from the ground up, Budget Cuts is a stealth game set in a dystopian office-scape with tons of evil robots and even more knives (for throwing and stabbing them with!) Use your TransLocator gun to teleport through the many departments of TransCorp. Sneak around corners, hide behind air vents, or go nuts with lots of robot-killing action!



Budget Cuts Arcade (accessed through the arcade machine in the main menu room) is a free update that now comes with the base game automatically, and adds four new bonus levels to the game, new difficulty levels, as well as a new Arcade Game Mode with high scores for the best runs! Full patch notes are available on our steam newshub.

"‘Budget Cuts’ Showcases an Impressive Grip on What Makes VR Great"
RoadtoVR

"Budget Cuts is the future of VR right freakin' now"
Eurogamer

“It's a rush that I might never have experienced in a game before.”
Polygon

“Budget Cuts reminds me of classic Valve single-player games. That’s a very, very exciting thing.”
Kotaku

“I can’t wait to play more of Budget Cuts, which might be the best, most interesting VR game I’ve played.”
IGN

"Virtual Reality Sneak ‘Em Up Budget Cuts Looks Ace"
RPS
PLEASE NOTE! We would NOT suggest that younger children play this game.

Available for Arcades on SpringboardVR

Budget Cuts — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Budget Cuts is a distinctive VR stealth game that players praise for its creative use of VR mechanics, satisfying physics interactions, and engaging corporate espionage premise with dark humor. Common complaints center on unclear objectives and occasional confusion about where to go or what to do, plus some players find the level design repetitive and encounter bugs, though many still find the core experience rewarding despite these issues. Players generally recommend it to VR headset owners looking for a unique stealth experience.

Recommended Jun 14, 2026
i am in love witht he scary robot. fun game
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 7, 2026
The game is way too confusing at times. Don't get me wrong I love the physics and it is kinda satisfactory but sometimes you'll just get stuck and there's nothing telling you where to go or what to do
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 14, 2026
Budget Cuts is a distinctive virtual reality stealth game that turns the dull routines of corporate office life into an entertaining struggle for survival. Developed by Neat Corporation and published by Neat Corporation together with Creature Label, the game was released in 2018 and was designed specifically around VR rather than adapting conventional first-person gameplay to a headset. Its combination of stealth, physical interaction, dark humor, science-fiction satire, and sudden bursts of combat gives it an identity that remains easy to recognize among VR titles. The player assumes the role of an employee working for TransCorp, a massive corporation where mundane responsibilities include stamping papers and filing documents. Unfortunately, the company specializes in producing robots designed to cut expenses, and human employees have become part of the budget that management intends to eliminate. This simple premise provides an effective foundation for the game's humor and dystopian atmosphere. The ordinary office environment becomes threatening once robotic security begins hunting the player, transforming cubicles, corridors, ventilation systems, and departmental workspaces int…
Not recommended Jun 26, 2026
Positive: it is short for what it offers and what it offers was made pertty well. Also a good "VR Legs" style of a game. But after having played a lot of VR games since testing this out in 2018(?) when I tested VR with original Vive, this is not it for me anymore. I had fond memories of playing one level and liking the teleporter ball concept and the stealth. I still do and I still liked the teleporter gun, but overall I was left dissappinted playing this almost a decade since it came out. Story was serviceable, but biggest negatives came from very repetitious levels and design, useless interactable objects, funky throwing, soft locking bugs (some that made the end boss stuck in a wall and made the end level easy, yay) and overall very "1st game by a team"-sort of a game. And they did very well, just not up to today's standards and too many annoyances. I am extremely mixed on this. But overall, as I just wanted the game to end even before the 2 last missions, i have to give this a negative rating.
Recommended Jun 15, 2026
a fun and engaging corporate espionage spy game with decent puzzles, stealth and combat. the aesthetics are on-point and overall i would recommend this game to anyone with a VR headset.
Recommended Jun 9, 2026
A fun game which utilizes VR mechanics well. now there are a few places were finding out what to do is difficult or the game is exsessivly hard, but the game is great regardless. hiding under desks is scary and fun in VR, hitting an enemy is difficult and rewarding. it does a good job at keeping you one your toes, and kept my heart racing.

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