BRINK

BRINK

Skip · Shooter · 2011

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
63% of 8,182
Critics
70 players 7 lower
Genre rank
Top 82% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews, Monetization

Time and effort

Main story
6.5h
To 100%
22.2h 3.4x the story
Achievements
43

Players and genre

Online
11 now
Better reviewed
17% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

69% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

It is less well reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dirty Bomb® (free, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Line of Sight (free, scores 6).

It is still busy. 11 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 3, 16:46 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. It takes its money later, through unlock.

More about BRINK

Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 343 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.

6.5 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
MonetizationUnlock
Paid extras, but no loot boxes or currency. A light touch
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesUnlockPCGamingWiki

What players say

The game does not deserve the history it had... Actually a good shooter. Still a small active community today
Daniel Garner FanboyRecommendedafter 37hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
It is truly a shame this game was left to rot. It was truly a fun time, especially with friends. Sadly you cant really play it these days...
InfernoRecommendedafter 12h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This game might not be perfect but at least its better than most Multiplayer focused FPS games nowadays.
Medium Rare JohnsonRecommendedafter 4.3hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

You decide the combat role you want to assume in the world of Brink as you fight to save yourself and mankind’s last refuge!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro or equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
BRINK scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22350/brink
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-7
Critics70
Players63
Metacritic critics · 8,182 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperSplash Damage
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreShooter
Released2011
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements43