Broken Lens
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h 10.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 273 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.33 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
Broken Lens is a cozy game where you will discover the story of a little robot with a sight problem. Explore manifold cute environments at your own pace and investigate to understand what happened to them.Will you be able to uncover all the secrets? 🔍
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 (DirectX 10) compliant graphics card and driver, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
13 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 100 hidden cats ($0.59, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Papetura ($11.99, scores 59).
More about Broken Lens
This site sampled 245 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 4.8 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
At 4.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
99% start to 17% 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
What players say
Kind of hoped there would be more to this game but nah. The puzzles vacillate between boringly simplistic and so difficult that you're just pixel hunting for the tiniest details. There's no sweet spot in the middle where it's actually satisfying.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Broken Lens is a really unique "find the differences" game with actual story telling and hidden puzzles to discover secrets. Each level has a special item that can be found in addition to the differences, which contributes book pages to slowly reveal the secrets. The music is stunningly relaxing and the art style felt well tailored for the topics explored. Adding a slight touch of eerie and emotions. Things were...
Cool story. Fun game overall. Sometiems frusterating as the difference as as little as a 1mm line that out of place. But mostly the differences are meaningful.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Broken Lens scores 64/100 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/2184770/broken-lensReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.