Not For Broadcast
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $9.18, only fair at $24.99.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $2.84/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Dedicated video card is required, 1gb VRAM, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.24. That was June 2024. It has been discounted 60 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 61 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.18. The record reaches that level 30 times.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. On the same math Beholder 2 ($2.69, scores 75) and Sultan's Game ($24.99, scores 88) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,320 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 1,702 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
8.8 hours to finish it, 59 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% 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
Players
33 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
An absolutely unique experience. Would recommend. I streamed this game to a live audience, and for anyone thinking about doing the same, check out some content warnings. It's not graphic but does include some hard subject matter - some depending on the choices you make. The Good Stuff - The core gameplay relies on two/three fundamental game mechanics, and introduces extra mechanics to keep things interesting, but...
I seen the video and photos on the listing page and thought it would be a boring game, boy was I wrong, it's super fun and a strange storyline to go with it, I will get the DLCS at some point but for now I will focus on the story
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Not For Broadcast scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1147550/not-for-broadcastThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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