Quantum Break
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $3.96/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x, 68 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was March 2023. It has been discounted 63 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 34 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 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).
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 8. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 560 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,550 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
87% start to 34% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
46 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It sucks seeing Microsoft games this amazing that nobody knows about just because of their terrible marketing. Such a great game.
Awesome time travel story, amazing visuals, good platforming, decent combat. The inclusion of live action feels half-baked but is improved upon in future Remedy games (Control and Alan Wake 2). The final battle was very disappointing and the most annoying part of the whole playthrough. The level design and combat encounters other than that are fine, also the sniper enemies feel a bit unbalanced as they can kill you...
I enjoyed this game quite a lot, the mix of narrative in game and TV show was interesting. Final boss fight was aids though. Beths life kinda sucks. It clearly was written to have a sequel.
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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Quantum Break scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/474960/quantum-breakThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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