Broken Age
Skip · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 8,245
- Critics
- 73 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 33% Narrative
Holding it back: Length unknown, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 45
Price and sales
- Sales
- 80 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 June 2019
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 13 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 79% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
41% 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
80 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Little Inferno ($14.99, scores 67) and There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($10.39, scores 82) both outscore it.
More about Broken Age
73 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
None of the 412 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 288 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2.4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Broken Age scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232790/broken-ageReviews 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 Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.