Broken Dreams
Skip · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $1.24/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1Gb. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A darkly-enticing story about unrequited love; Broken Dreams is a casual platforming game featuring full voice-acting, beautiful hand-drawn environments and a twist on the original platforming mechanic!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in September 2016. 81 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 50 percent off still sits 102 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Freebie ($0.99, scores 36) beats it on value, while it beats Anarchy Arcade (free, scores 21).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
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Greetings, fellow gamers. I come from the frozen tundras of Icesta. Where the snowfall is an eternal dance and ice magic courses through our veins. Gaming is a solace to my kind, and my vast experience has spanned many worlds and platforms. So, when I encountered "Broken Dreams", I was hoping for an immersive experience, similar to the heart-wrenching tales of love and loss we share during our long winter nights...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Broken Dreams scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/444480/broken-dreamsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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