BrokenLore: LOW
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $8.99.
- Length
- 1h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $8.99/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 519 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $6.74 (25% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
BrokenLore: LOW is a psychological horror game set in a mist-covered, beautiful Japanese village, blending hyper-realistic graphics with low-poly elements. The main enemy is the Gashadokuro, a yokai from Japanese folklore.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Maid of Sker ($24.99, scores 36) beats it on value, while it beats Supernormal ($7.99, scores 31).
More about BrokenLore: LOW
Steam's global achievement data puts 65 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 8 of the 293 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 328 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 8 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 258 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
95% start to 65% 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
BrokenLore: LOW, more like BrokenGem In all seriousness, I do genuinely think this game is a rough gem. It does a lot very well and other things not so well. I saw some reviews saying this game is a walking simulator. That is wrong and quite honestly unfair in my opinion. You walk a lot, sure, but you walk a lot in many games. You have objectives in this game, enemy encounters, fail states and so on. A walking...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BrokenLore: LOW scores 34/100 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/3014520/brokenlore-lowReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.