Brighter Shores

Brighter Shores

Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

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

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
67% of 9,422
Genre rank
Top 81% RPG

Holding it back: Early access, Reviews

Players and genre

Online
121 now
Better reviewed
18% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It is less well reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heartwood Online (free, scores 17) beats it on value, while it beats Milky Way Idle (free, scores 0).

It is still busy. 121 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 3, 04:46 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
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
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
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

About the game

Brighter Shores is an all new adventure from award winning MMORPG designer Andrew Gower. It is an enchanting point-and-click style RPG with hundreds of hours of gameplay, set in a land of magic and mysteries, with a huge number of professions to try, and something new to find around every corner.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DirectX 11 capable graphics with at least 2GB RAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Brighter Shores scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 9,422 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2791440/brighter-shores
Embed the live badge

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 Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperFen Research Ltd
PublisherFen Research Ltd
GenreRPG
Released2024