Kona II: Brume
Skip · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$29.99Skip
On its price record
$17.34Fair
- Length
- 8h 11.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.75/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 530 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $17.34 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 760 / 965M | AMD Radeon HD 7850 with 2gb of VRAM, 35 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
Across all 28 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Call of the Sea ($4.99, scores 75) and The Painscreek Killings ($19.99, scores 66) both outscore it.
More about Kona II: Brume
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026.
At 8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
92% start to 32% 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
Players
- Players online
- 8 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Play the first Kona, then this one. A very fun and chill adventure. The only thing I'd really change is the mine section. A bit too much of an annoying backtracking experience there for me.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Kona II: Brume is a pretty good mystery, horror game and a pretty good follow-up to the first game, but anyway what is the story. Detective Carl Faubert has had a rough day and it all started by being hired by the rich industrialist Hamilton, it was a simple job someone had been vandalizing Hamilton's business and he hired Carl to investigate, not exactly something a detective would be hired for but Carl needed the...
Oof. It'd be fine, I think, if there wasn't the first game to contrast it to. Brume is streamlined. Visible stamina bar. Less involved inventory management. Combat right off the rip. Still just a cold walking sim, but the survival elements are also scaled back and the survival elements were what made the first game feel like anything. Heck, the narrator's now an american. Why. The vibes of the original came from its...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kona II: Brume scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1229020/kona-ii-brumeReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.