Quantum Break

Quantum Break

Fair · Shooter · 2016

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$7.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$3.96/hr
Reviews▼
86% of 31,368
Critics
66 players 20 higher
Genre rank
Top 38% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 69% off ($12.25) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
10.1h
To 100%
18.5h 1.8x the story
Finish
34% reach the ending
Achievements
42

Price and sales

Sales
64 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$7.99 March 2023
Sale every
46d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $7.74 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
92 now
Recent reviews
88% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
70% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

87% start to 34% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 64 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 38 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alan Wake ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Alan Wake's American Nightmare ($8.99, scores 37).

More about Quantum Break

Critics scored it 66. Players sit 20 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,553 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Engagement34% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.96/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds7 of 800 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

What players say

Good game that fits well into the Remedyverse. A time capsule of 2015-16. HOWEVER, caveat: the video capsules ("episodes") that are essential to understanding the story are not actually stored in the game data: they stream from a mysterious source, and some are broken for the rest of eternity. So game is partially broken.
markpp7Recommendedafter 24h21 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It was such an amazing experience. Also if you are playing it lock the fps to 60 DO NOT USE the in-game Vsync, and turn off the Up scaling if your pc is beefy enpugh.
EPICFURYRecommendedafter 19h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I expected clasic remedy game as alan wake and control but this is just boring beyond comprehension. Combat is very boring and dull and story, altho interesting premise is told badly, with a lot of cliches , bad writing and bad acting. I was determined to finish it but it is so boring it makes me sleepy.
scekicvuk19Not recommendedafter 3.9h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x, 68 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Quantum Break scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/474960/quantum-break
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+20
Critics66
Players86
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 31,368 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRemedy Entertainment
PublisherXbox Game Studios
GenreShooter
Released2016
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements42