Broken Reality
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.93.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $2.11/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 952 MB of storage. Windows only.
A humorous adventure set in a 3D parody of the internet. Diverse puzzles, beautiful worlds, friends, experiences, upgrades and more, await those who 'log on'!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.24. That was May 2024. 64 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $5.93 BANGER line 36 times.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mouthwashing ($12.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut ($6.99, scores 64).
7 of the 456 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 18:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a fun little 'collectathon'/ semi N64 style game in a humorous virtual world full of ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ. Doesn't take itself seriously, sort of GTA-style humor in the worldbuilding full of brands that are parodies of real life stuff. The game is also stuffed with 2010s internet references, so if you were online during that time plenty of little 'microjokes' around. The settings and vibe are hands down what...
(Originally written in 2019, as one segment of a three part review for YIIK, Hypnospace Outlaw and Broken Reality) Broken Reality plays very differently from Hypnospace Outlaw, but it's about many of the same ideas. Once again you explore a visualization of the early internet. This time not through a browser, but in the form of an actual 3D environment, all low poly, pastel colours, creative user avatars and...
Like, it's good. The ending does not live up to the rest of the game in my opinion. Sort of a "Captain America: The First Avenger" Situation.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Broken Reality scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/757480/broken-realityReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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