Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.74.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 /ATI Radeon HD 2600, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.
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
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.74, a level the record has reached 79 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Last Campfire ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Figment 2: Creed Valley ($24.99, scores 60).
Of the 738 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 3,496 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
34% start to 9% 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
9 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
There is something special about this game. Hats off to Josef Fares for this touching work.
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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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/225080/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sonsThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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