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From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
Quantum Break is a action, story rich and time manipulation game
developed by Remedy Entertainment
and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on September 29th 2016 is available only on Windows.
It has received 28,140 reviews of which 24,117 were positive and 4,023 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 36.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.46€ on Eneba.
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- OS *: Windows 7 - 64 bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 68 GB available space
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### Quantum Break ---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARC Raiders ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
Good game that fits well into the Remedyverse. A time capsule of 2015-16. HOWEVER, caveat: the video capsules ("episodes") that are essential to understanding the story are not actually stored in the game data: they stream from a mysterious source, and some are broken for the rest of eternity. So game is partially broken.
Awesome time travel story, amazing visuals, good platforming, decent combat. The inclusion of live action feels half-baked but is improved upon in future Remedy games (Control and Alan Wake 2). The final battle was very disappointing and the most annoying part of the whole playthrough. The level design and combat encounters other than that are fine, also the sniper enemies feel a bit unbalanced as they can kill you in 2-3 seconds out of cover. For 100%, there is no grind, just be mindful of looking for collectibles through out the playthrough and you'll be fine. Very easy and fun 100%. Overall had an amazing time with this one. Highly recommend experiencing this for the story and awesome time travel plot.
Quantum Break — Time, Tragedy and the Elegance of a Sci-Fi Masterpiece There are games that entertain you. There are games that impress you technically. There are games that deliver a good story and then quietly disappear from memory. And then there is Quantum Break — a game that, for me, belongs in that rare category of single-player experiences that do not simply occupy your time, but leave an emotional and intellectual imprint long after you stop playing. This is not just a third-person action game with time powers. This is not just a sci-fi shooter. This is not just another experiment in cinematic storytelling. Quantum Break is a bold, elegant and emotionally charged fusion of science fiction, tragedy, action, live-action drama, temporal philosophy and human consequence. It is one of those games that dared to be different, dared to be ambitious and dared to tell a story about time not only as a gameplay mechanic, but as a curse, a weapon, a prison and a tragedy. For me, Quantum Break stands beside games like Mafia I, Mafia II, Uncharted, Sleeping Dogs and Cyberpunk 2077 in that special emotional territory where the game becomes more than entertainment. These are games that create atmosphere. Games that create memory. Games that make you feel something. Games that remind you that single-player storytelling is still one of the most powerful forms of gaming when it is executed with intelligence, confidence and artistic vision. And Quantum Break absolutely belongs there. From the very beginning, the game has a unique identity. It does not feel generic. It does not feel manufactured by committee. It has that unmistakable Remedy personality: cinematic, strange, atmospheric, mysterious, emotional and slightly surreal. It understands that a good science-fiction story is not only about technology, laboratories, timelines and paradoxes. It is about people trapped inside consequences they barely understand. That is what makes Quantum Break so strong. At the center of the story is Jack Joyce, a man thrown into an impossible situation after an experiment goes catastrophically wrong. What begins as a scientific breakthrough becomes a temporal disaster. Time itself fractures, reality becomes unstable, and Jack is forced into a conflict where the enemy is not only a corporation, not only an army, not only one man’s ambition — but the collapse of time. That concept alone is powerful. But what makes it work is that Quantum Break never treats time travel as a cheap gimmick. It treats it as something dangerous, tragic and almost spiritual. Time is not a toy here. It is not a simple excuse for cool powers. It is a force that breaks lives, destroys certainty, twists loyalty and turns every choice into a possible catastrophe. That is excellent science fiction. The best sci-fi does not simply ask, “What if technology became advanced?” It asks, “What happens to humanity when technology reaches a place we are emotionally unprepared to control?” Quantum Break understands that question perfectly. The story is built around consequence. Around cause and effect. Around the terrifying idea that the future may already be wounded by the choices of the present. Around the possibility that trying to prevent disaster may actually become the path that creates it. That kind of narrative complexity gives the game a deeper intellectual weight than many action titles even attempt. And yet, despite its complexity, the story remains emotionally accessible. It is about friendship. It is about betrayal. It is about brotherhood. It is about fear. It is about power. It is about people making desperate choices while reality collapses around them. That emotional grounding is essential. Because without human emotion, time travel stories become cold puzzles. Quantum Break avoids that. It gives the concept a heartbeat. Jack Joyce is not interesting only because he gains powers. He is interesting because he is not prepared for the responsibility forced upon him. He is not a superhero. He is a man trying to understand a disaster while being hunted, manipulated and pushed into events that are already bigger than him. His time powers make him dangerous, but they do not make him invulnerable emotionally. That is important. The game constantly reminds you that power does not eliminate fear. Sometimes power simply gives you a better view of the disaster coming toward you. Then there is Paul Serene, one of the most fascinating antagonists in modern gaming. He is not a simple villain. He is not evil in a childish way. He is dangerous because he believes he is right. He has seen things others have not seen. He understands the catastrophe from a perspective that makes his actions feel, in his own mind, necessary. That is what makes him compelling. A weak villain wants power for no reason. A strong villain believes his brutality is rational. Paul Serene is terrifying because he is not chaotic. He is controlled. Calculated. Haunted. He is a man who has turned trauma into ideology. He believes he is saving the world, even if saving the world requires sacrificing people, morality and freedom. That kind of antagonist elevates the entire story. The dynamic between Jack and Paul gives Quantum Break its dramatic tension. They are not just hero and villain. They are connected by time, by science, by consequence and by different interpretations of survival. Jack represents resistance, emotion and moral urgency. Paul represents control, inevitability and cold pragmatism. Their conflict is not only physical. It is philosophical. Can the future be changed? Should it be changed? What if preventing the end requires becoming monstrous? What if accepting destiny is just another form of cowardice? These questions give the game depth. And that is one of the reasons I respect Quantum Break so much. It is an action game that actually has ideas. The gameplay itself is extremely satisfying because the time powers are not cosmetic. They define the rhythm of combat. Quantum Break does not play like a standard cover shooter with one or two abilities added on top. It turns time manipulation into a core combat language. You can freeze enemies. You can dash through danger. You can create temporal shields. You can distort the battlefield. You can turn movement itself into a weapon. Combat becomes a dance of momentum, precision and temporal aggression. You are not simply hiding behind cover and exchanging bullets. You are bending the flow of battle. You are moving through time fractures, repositioning, disrupting enemies, controlling pressure and creating cinematic violence in real time. That is brilliant. The best moments in Quantum Break feel like playing through a high-budget sci-fi action sequence where you are both the director and the protagonist. Bullets hang in the air. Enemies are suspended in temporal distortion. Explosions freeze, shimmer and then erupt. Jack moves through chaos like reality itself is struggling to keep up with him. That is not just gameplay. That is style. And Remedy has always understood style. Graphically, Quantum Break is still an impressive game. It has a very specific visual identity: clean, cinematic, moody, modern, cold and dramatic. The lighting is excellent. The facial detail, environments, particle effects and time distortion visuals create a world that feels polished and atmospheric. It may not be the newest title anymore, but its art direction gives it longevity. The time fracture effects are especially memorable. They are not just visual effects for spectacle. They communicate that reality is damaged. Objects stutter. Environments collapse and rebuild. Time becomes unstable, almost physical. You can see the world breaking. That visual language is one of the game’s strongest achievements. The stutters are incredible because they make the impossible feel tangible. Time is usually invisible in games. Quantum Break makes time visible. It gives it texture, di
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Quantum Break is currently priced at 36.99€ on Steam.
No, Quantum Break is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 36.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Quantum Break received 24,117 positive votes out of a total of 28,140 achieving a rating of 8.41.
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Quantum Break was developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Yes, Quantum Break is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Quantum Break is not playable on MacOS.
No, Quantum Break is not playable on Linux.
No, Quantum Break is not playable on Steam Deck.
No, Quantum Break is not playable on Steam Machine.
No, Quantum Break does not support VR.
Quantum Break is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Quantum Break. Explore additional content available for Quantum Break on Steam.
No, Quantum Break does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, Quantum Break supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Quantum Break is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Remedy Entertainment
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release
29 Sep 2016
Platforms
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