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A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.

Broken Age is a point & click, adventure and story rich game developed and published by Double Fine Productions.
Released on January 28th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain and Russian.

It has received 7,960 reviews of which 6,656 were positive and 1,304 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP Service Pack 3
  • Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel HD 3000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 2500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
  • Additional Notes: Must have OpenGL 3 with GLSL version 1.3
MacOS
  • OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later
  • Processor: Intel Core Duo
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, Intel HD 3000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
  • Storage: 2500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Must have OpenGL 3 with GLSL version 1.3
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel HD 4000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
  • Storage: 2500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Must have OpenGL 3 with GLSL version 1.3

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Feb. 2025
(My steamdeckhours do not show?) A tribute to oldschool adventures. I felt really at home with the non linear progress and inventory (and not only dull puzzlegame after puzzlegame like in some modern "adventures"). *I miss the days when you could make a mistake and be blasted by a Sarien ;D* The Story was very good in totally misleading me into believing something that isn't there and then slowly piecing the pieces together just when/or close before they were revealed by the game. I also liked a lot how the Stories where interlinked and showed different perspectives/consequences. So the game left me with a good feeling of balance between being predictable (a.k.a. making me feel smart ;D) and surprising. The Dialogues where fun, varied and thought through and they left a good impression. Also Voiceactors felt suiting and did a good job (english). The Graphics were also enjoyable (even if this comicstyle is a kind of artstyle i normally don't like) It all fits together very well. Only the ending left me wanting to continue, because it felt like it suddenly skipped to endscene/credits. I have to admit after watching the credits with some endscenepictures it felt kind of complete. But still. So, even if there could be more in there, i can reccomend this largely well rounded package.
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Jan. 2025
I'm honestly a little biased because this was the first game play-through I experienced so playing it myself was super nostalgic. Still, for anyone who enjoys point and click adventure games I would recommend. Visuals are beautiful, characters are funky & the story line/ twists are relatively good. One of my favourites :)
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Nov. 2024
good game but whoever invented those wire puzzles that generate different for every player... i hate u
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June 2024
Great characters and story, but I hate the ending. Really wish there was a third act to tie it all together.
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May 2024
While Broken Age clearly wasn’t everything that people hoped for after its historical Kickstarter campaign, it’s also not nearly as bad as some of the rebounded criticism made it out to be. Can Tim Schafer do better? Absolutely; he can and he did many times with other projects. Was it rushed and unfinished? Certainly; Act 2 barely has any new locations, while the story concludes so abruptly and with so many loose ends that it really feels like there should’ve been Act 3. However, what’s present is still a solid adventure with a unique setting, beautiful art, loads of witty dialogues and engaging yet accessible puzzles (except for maybe a couple from Act 2, but they are nowhere near the sadistic level of some older genre classics). I’d also argue that it’s a better pick for an average player than many LucasArts games, since they rarely felt particularly conclusive too and were mostly focused on gags, while Broken Age manages to sneak in some reasonably thought-provoking social themes behind the barrage of funny conversations. They say that the documentary was really the main star, while the game itself is just a side dish, but if you’re interested in adventure games, this is still a side dish worth biting into.
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Broken Age
8.1
6,656
1,304
Online players
9
Developer
Double Fine Productions
Publisher
Double Fine Productions
Release 28 Jan 2014
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