BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $8.99. Fair at $6.47, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2025 (lowest $7.19, Jun 2025).
- Length
- 1h 1.3h to 100%
- Value
- $8.99/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 481 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.47 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
In BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH, immerse yourself in the haunting world of Shinji, a young hikikomori trapped in his Tokyo apartment. As his mind unravels, confront a malevolent entity lurking in the shadows. Will you uncover the truth before it's too late?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
16 discounts in the 1 year on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dollmare ($4.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Supernormal ($7.99, scores 31).
More about BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH
Steam's global achievement data puts 73 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 376 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 350 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 322 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 77 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% start to 73% 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
What players say
10/10 game! A great combination of photorealism with surrealism as well as grotesque designs of monsters, and the vibe of the uncanny valley is retained, and overall a well balanced game, will definitely looking forward to finish other endings of this game, because it is really a fun game!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Played it at least three times, to get some achievements, but overall, love the atmosphere and the recurring corridors and I noticed 9:05 and 905 in the demo and it drew me in right away. Some of it reminded me of my favorite game Shadow Man from 1999, when you first approached the Asylum: Gateway and jump down to the corridor to hear the music, it felt the same when jumping down to the TV Screen Puzzle courtyard. I...
One hour of play - really? I like short games but this is pretty ridiculous for the money.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH scores 46/100 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/2351330/brokenlore-don-t-watchReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.