Break the Game
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.4h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 673 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
This game is about Kevin, He's been stuck in his gaf̶̨s̨fẃ̵̕ HEY, YOU, STAY AWA̸̧͘Y, IT'S ME KEVIN, THERE'S NO POINT, D҉Ò̷̕N̸̕͏'T-- Follow him in this adventurous and humor-filled story to ｄ̶̢͙̟̦̺̰̫̙̋̊͐̐͑͋̈́̕̕͝ ｄｉｅ
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Open GL 3.2+ Compliant, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
19 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 18 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) ($24.99, scores 29).
More about Break the Game
This site sampled 353 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to 9% 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
A fun sequel to "Escape the game" If you can't find it, it may have been geoblocked in your region.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Break the Game, developed and published by Simon Fredholm, is an unconventional indie experience that deliberately blurs the boundary between player, character, and game itself. From the very beginning, it makes clear that this is not a traditional adventure or platformer meant to be consumed passively. Instead, it presents itself as a self-aware, often chaotic conversation between the game and the person playing...
I liked this game. I really did. I was immersed in it, I was happy, I was sad, and it had a LOT of funny moments... but then the game kept going... and going... it felt like it just was never going to end... Boring dialogue, loooong, unskippable scenes... Then, I finally got to the ending. When all was said and done, I felt empty, and tired. The game lost all meaning, and my play time lost all meaning. I will only...
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Cite this score
Break the Game scores 30/100 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/739540/break-the-gameReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.