Border Officer
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $2.49.
- Reviews
- 57% of 1,376 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
It is 75% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Usually everyone is unemployed here. But by chance you got a job. You'il work for the state.Everyone in your family is sick or unemployed, only you can help them. You're an immigrant officer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 72 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Streamer Life Simulator ($1.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Heat ($4.99, scores 0).
More about Border Officer
27 of the 698 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 139 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 27 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 465 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Border Officer scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1057180/border-officerReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.