Burly Men at Sea
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 0.5h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $19.98/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 499 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
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About the game
A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 276 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 37 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. Hidden Folks ($14.99, scores 69) outscores it, and so does Lil' Guardsman ($19.99, scores 69). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Burly Men at Sea
Critics scored it 82, but players land 19 points lower at 63 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 61 percent of everything written about it.
0.5 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.0 times the campaign.
At 0.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
68% start to 14% rarestNo 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
Such a pretty game, but also very boring. I'm not a fan of repeating things multiple times, and this game started to feel grindy even though it is a very short game. The idea is there and I liked the characters the burly men met. I just wish there had been less branching and more story for each branch. Now it was 3 clearly different main branches which then each branched to a 2 different sub-branches, and then these...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game has a strong core idea and certain well-executed parts. You can tell where work and heart went into it - the music, for example, has this kind of a capella, homemade sound that makes me think it took time and passion to create. As a game, though, it's lacking in some ways that turned me off from it. The controls for PC are irritating. They don't break the game or anything, but at no point do they feel...
A nice little game telling 12 small stories of adventurous journeys, taking path between three routes, each of which will make you choose between two choices, leading to another pair of last choices until you loop back to the beginning, ready to take on another of those 12 stories. :P The stories are short and the actions simple, but sometimes you'll have to wait a bit as the characters transition from a scene to...
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Cite this score
Burly Men at Sea scores 6/100 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/403290/burly-men-at-seaReviews 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.