Ministry of Broadcast
Skip · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$13.07Fair
- Length
- 5.7h 10.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 468 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.07 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven single player cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. A country divided by The Wall; to cross it and reach your family, you must compete on - and win - a reality TV show broadcast by the Regime.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. On the same math Reventure ($12.34, scores 77) and Owlboy ($19.99, scores 52) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Ministry of Broadcast
Critics scored it 67. Players sit 16 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 263 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to May 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to 35% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
You don't have much in the way of direct control of your guy, instead utilizing a sort of context-sensitive series of controls that end up just being janky. You don't jump when you push the button; you jump when your character damn well feels like it. Which means you'll probably be falling a lot. I'm not sure that even qualifies it as a platformer, but it's not much of a puzzle game either, even as far as...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Ministry of Broadcast scores 48/100 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/874040/ministry-of-broadcastReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.