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BROKE PROTOCOL

BROKE PROTOCOL · 2024-06-26

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieMassively MultiplayerRPGSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Aug 26, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.

BROKE PROTOCOL is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2024, priced at free-to-play, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (74% of 3241 reviews).

6
playing now
75%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

BROKE PROTOCOL trailer thumbnail

Broke Protocol trailer

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Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 89 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity down 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (414 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2018-10-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
22822820182026Week of 2018-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 186 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1802026-09-14 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 5 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 8 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 11 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 17 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 8 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 5 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 17 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 8 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 6 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.5k5Aug 2017Aug 2026Aug 2017 — avg 37 · peak 119Nov 2017 — avg 13 · peak 47Feb 2018 — avg 12 · peak 36May 2018 — avg 25 · peak 82Aug 2018 — avg 171 · peak 977Nov 2018 — avg 42 · peak 232Feb 2019 — avg 32 · peak 86May 2019 — avg 115 · peak 1,212Aug 2019 — avg 41 · peak 82Nov 2019 — avg 31 · peak 123Feb 2020 — avg 38 · peak 253May 2020 — avg 50 · peak 259Aug 2020 — avg 68 · peak 622Nov 2020 — avg 31 · peak 79Feb 2021 — avg 37 · peak 77May 2021 — avg 36 · peak 109Aug 2021 — avg 44 · peak 361Nov 2021 — avg 99 · peak 2,115Feb 2022 — avg 27 · peak 64May 2022 — avg 24 · peak 126Aug 2022 — avg 36 · peak 79Nov 2022 — avg 19 · peak 58Feb 2023 — avg 26 · peak 66May 2023 — avg 20 · peak 61Aug 2023 — avg 22 · peak 65Nov 2023 — avg 14 · peak 43Feb 2024 — avg 18 · peak 51May 2024 — avg 13 · peak 38Aug 2024 — avg 14 · peak 55Nov 2024 — avg 16 · peak 49Feb 2025 — avg 14 · peak 37May 2025 — avg 12 · peak 41Aug 2025 — avg 10 · peak 36Nov 2025 — avg 5 · peak 19Feb 2026 — avg 6 · peak 20May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 24Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 26
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.002017-08-272024-09-272017-08-27 — best price $4.492017-10-26 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $2.492017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-03-19 — best price $2.492018-05-21 — best price $2.492018-06-21 — best price $2.492018-10-30 — best price $1.242019-02-04 — best price $2.492019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-10-28 — best price $1.992019-11-26 — best price $1.992019-12-19 — best price $1.992020-01-23 — best price $1.992020-02-17 — best price $1.992020-04-06 — best price $1.992020-06-25 — best price $1.992020-09-07 — best price $1.992020-10-29 — best price $1.992020-11-25 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-02-11 — best price $1.992021-03-15 — best price $1.992024-09-27 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform Multiplayer

13 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Portuguese - Portugal, Thai, Czech…

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSRPGCuteIndieActionCasualSandboxShooterViolentModdable

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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