Flamebreak

Flamebreak

Worth it · Roguelike · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
2h 78.1h to 100%
Value
$5.00/hr
Reviews
94% of 532 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$5.00/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 125 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

Flamebreak is a roguelite action RPG featuring a unique blend of twinstick meets MOBA arena combat. Each procedurally generated run presents new challenges while your randomized hero's race, weapon, and skills inspire new playstyles and character builds.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 4.1+ supported graphics card, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 51 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rampage Knights ($12.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Never Split the Party (free, scores 44).

More about Flamebreak

HowLongToBeat players log 2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 78, 39 times as much.

The drop-off

44% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Flamebreak is a compact yet remarkably deep roguelite action RPG that thrives on unpredictability, experimentation, and player mastery. From the very beginning, the game establishes itself as an experience built around repetition with purpose, where failure is not only expected but essential to learning its systems. Each run drops the player into a series of procedurally generated encounters that demand constant...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 16hDec 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
I bought this for 2$ CAD and that's what it's worth. Incredibly repetitive and the items you buy don't really add anything to the play style. I wouldn't recommend it full price.
Pasquale BambinoNot recommendedafter 3.1hJul 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Flamebreak scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/399640/flamebreak
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNimbly Games
PublisherNimbly Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24