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Ministry of Broadcast cover art

Ministry of Broadcast

Twin Petes · Hitcents · 2020-01-30

SteamGOGAmazon

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 30, 2020 (Mac), Jan 30, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 30, 2020 (Nintendo Switch)

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.

83%
positive of 468 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
8h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
Ministry of Broadcast is a 2020 independent adventure cinematic platform video game developed by the developer Ministry of Broadcast Studio. It was mostly praised for its character development, cinematic tone, art style and story. It is inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 15,974 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.4k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 468 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$13.49-10%
GOG$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-05-16) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 16 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
545420202026Week of 2020-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$2.992020-01-302026-09-142020-01-30 — best price $13.492020-04-16 — best price $11.992020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $8.992021-01-04 — best price $14.992021-02-22 — best price $14.992021-05-15 — best price $8.992021-07-08 — best price $14.992021-11-01 — best price $14.992021-12-22 — best price $7.492022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-05-05 — best price $9.742022-10-19 — best price $7.492022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-01-01 — best price $11.012023-03-06 — best price $11.242023-06-13 — best price $11.012023-07-14 — best price $13.492023-08-16 — best price $14.992023-09-11 — best price $14.992023-10-03 — best price $11.012023-11-21 — best price $7.492023-12-13 — best price $7.492024-01-16 — best price $7.492024-02-13 — best price $13.492024-11-18 — best price $13.492025-01-23 — best price $14.992025-03-31 — best price $13.492025-06-26 — best price $11.242026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-04-20 — best price $13.492026-07-28 — best price $13.492026-09-14 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1102026-06-16 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 4 pageviews2026-06-22 — 9 pageviews2026-06-25 — 2 pageviews2026-06-28 — 7 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1 pageviews2026-07-04 — 5 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-16 — 7 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 6 pageviews2026-07-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-31 — 3 pageviews2026-08-03 — 6 pageviews2026-08-06 — 5 pageviews2026-08-09 — 1 pageviews2026-08-12 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 9 pageviews2026-08-18 — 2 pageviews2026-08-21 — 4 pageviews2026-08-24 — 7 pageviews2026-08-27 — 1 pageviews2026-08-30 — 8 pageviews2026-09-02 — 3 pageviews2026-09-05 — 1 pageviews2026-09-08 — 5 pageviews2026-09-11 — 2 pageviews2026-09-13 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
83.4%
earned "BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED ORDER"
18.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-02-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4444%28
Switch (Nintendo)30%0
Switch (Nintendo)20%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieRetroAdventurePoliticalDark HumorDystopian PlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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