Master Reboot

Master Reboot

Skip · Action · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 32, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
4.1h 6.6h to 100%
Value
$3.66/hr
Reviews
75% of 697 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Raising the score
Engagement6% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 75 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Imagine a world where death is no longer final, where precious memories are saved to enjoy forever, where your soul is immortal. Master Reboot is a haunting first-person sci-fi adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 3 Compatible, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 98 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 44 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Scorn ($39.99, scores 28).

More about Master Reboot

59 from critics against 75 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

53% start to 6% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

Man, this game is ROUGH. I like puzzle games and I like older games, so I'm not a graphics elitist in any way, and I like the visual style, as low detail as it is, but what bothers me is how janky the scripting, animations, transitions, etc are. There are so many bizarre hard cuts and glitchy cuts and broken animations that I find it really hard to believe that no one noticed any of it. Interaction with objects in...
GorevoidNot recommendedafter 1.4hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The sound design is absolutely horrendous, the game relies on cheap audio jumpscares that are tripple the volume of the already unbearably loud game where you cant even separately change the volume level of for example sound effects, its all just mushed up in one audio level. The game is severely lacking in explanations, I'm not one to argue for games to hold your hand along the way but for gods sake, dont just...
Disguised KatNot recommendedafter 3.3hAug 2024Read on Steam
Decent puzzle-game in a sci-fi setting. More than ten years old = buy it on sale.
vanadiumRecommendedafter 3.1hOct 2024Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Master Reboot scores 32/100 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/251850/master-reboot
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+16
Critics59
Players75
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 697 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWales Interactive
PublisherWales Interactive
GenreAction
Released2013
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20