Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
Skip · Action · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $19.99. Price from Oct 22.
- Reviews▼
- 62% of 1,000
- Genre rank
- Top 94% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Early access
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 17
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 8% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
13% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $19.99, set in July 2026. In 3 months of price history it has never once been discounted.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. Sons Of The Forest ($29.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Survival: Fountain of Youth ($9.79, scores 52). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
20 of the 617 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 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 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 213 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 5 of the 20 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 8 of 249 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 371 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Breakwaters: Crystal Tides scores 6/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. Price last read Oct 22. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1203180/breakwaters-crystal-tidesReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Oct 22. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.