Brukel
Fair · Short indie · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 235 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.95 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 578 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 770 with 2GB VRAM / Radeon R9 280X 3GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 27 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 83 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Summer of '58 ($8.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats The Town of Light ($18.99, scores 40).
More about Brukel
Steam's global achievement data puts 54 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
63% start to 54% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is a short walking simulator (mostly) about the experiences of a WWII survivor. It is a story of a home haunted, not by ghosts but, by memories. At 90 minutes, it's still a better buy than most movies.
2 more reviews
My wife said if this review gets 50 likes and 5 awards, she will buy a case of beer, guys help me out.
Brukel is a passion project that offers a window into the life of someone from a diminishing generation. The game is full of real anecdotes from the subject herself about the experiences she went through. This is all, of course, in her native tongue, but thankfully there are a variety of caption options available for those who wouldn't understand it based on the audio alone. You could view this game is somewhat of...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Brukel scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1073900/brukelReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.