Broken Armor
Fair · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h 7.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 821 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
A knight exiled from his kingdom must find the holy grail if he is to return.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Onboard graphics, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
88 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. It is cheaper than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Shotgun Legend ($0.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Polygoneer ($4.99, scores 35).
More about Broken Armor
This site sampled 403 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 341 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 4.5 times as much.
The drop-off
7% start to 2% 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
True NES spirit: chunky pixels, awesome music, brutal difficulty. Pick a knight or a sorcerer and save the land. Addictive to the end. The Gamortician says yes.
1 more review
Broken Armor is a top-down 2D action game developed by Jonathan Tindell and published by Wastebasket Games that deliberately embraces the spirit of early arcade and home-computer titles. Rather than attempting to modernize its structure with sprawling systems or cinematic storytelling, it commits fully to a retro philosophy centered on challenge, repetition, and mechanical simplicity. The premise follows a disgraced...
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Cite this score
Broken Armor scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/508840/broken-armorReviews 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.