Aperture Desk Job overview

Overview

Aperture Desk Job comes from Valve and is published by Valve. It arrived on Steam on Mar 1, 2022, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Full controller support, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Steam Input API Support, and Stereo Sound. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Aperture Desk Job's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 9 players at 12 September 2026 - 00:38:46 UTC, with a tracked peak near 105. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 95% positive across 24,897 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Aperture Desk Job is available in 28 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Aperture Desk Job has sold up to 750,000 units and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Aperture Desk Job overview details

Aperture Desk Job combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Aperture Desk Job reimagines the been-there-done-that genre of walking simulators and puts them in the lightning-spanked, endorphin-gorged world of sitting still behind things. You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work — your heart full of hope and your legs full of dreams, eager to climb that corporate ladder. But life’s got other plans, and they all involve chairs. Designed as a free playable short for Valve’s new Steam Deck, Desk Job walks you through the handheld’s controls and features, while not being nearly as boring as that sounds. Not Portal 3! Lower your expectations: This is not a sequel to Portal. Now get ready to raise them slightly, because it is in the expanded universe of those games. Desk Job puts you squarely in the driver’s seat at Aperture Science. Then quickly removes the driving part and adds a desk in front of the seat. Steam Deck: A Desk For Your Hands Up until now, real life mostly involved sitting, and video games were the virtual fantasy world you could escape to. With the portable Steam Deck, we flipped that, freeing your body to run marathons and jump out of planes while your brain and hands simulate all the sitting you used to do. It’s F-R-E-E (Free)! Put that wallet away, gaming fan! Your money’s no good here. For this particular product. If your money stops working while trying to buy groceries, though, you should contact your bank immediately, because the cashier just stole your entire identity? You’d better go talk to her again, because what do you mean she never worked here?! Now you’ll have to go undercover as a dar…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Aperture Desk Job is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Full controller support, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Steam Input API Support, and Stereo Sound, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Casual, and Free To Play. SteamPulse's latest observation records 9 players at 12 September 2026 - 00:38:46 UTC, a tracked peak of 105, and 95% positive reviews.

Support and legal notes

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