Quantum Break
Third-person sci-fi shooter mixing time powers with live-action episodes
Remedy Entertainment · Published by Xbox Game Studios · Released Sep 29, 2016
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 86% of 31K
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 93% of 132 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 41
- peak 24h 78
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Last update
- Unknown
- no patch notes found
Metacritic: 66/100 (critic reviews)
What is Quantum Break?
A single-player third-person shooter set amid a fracture in time. You fight with guns and time-manipulation abilities, navigate temporal disruptions, and make choices that affect live-action episodes between playable sections as Jack Joyce tries to stop Paul Serene and repair time.
For you if...
- +you want story-led science fiction with time-manipulation combat
- +you enjoy cinematic games broken up by live-action episodes
- +you prefer a single-player, third-person shooter
Not for you if...
- −you want uninterrupted action with few cutscenes
- −you prefer open exploration over a linear cinematic structure
- −you dislike platforming between third-person shootouts
What players say
86% of 31,037 reviews are positive · 93% of 132 in the last 30 days
Players most often praise the science-fiction story, time powers, and integration of playable chapters with live-action episodes. Common complaints include stuttering, crashes, and severe performance drops later in the game, along with repetitive shooting, awkward platforming, and long stretches between playable action.
Screenshots and trailer
Quantum Break system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 - 64 bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 68 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 - 64 bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 4690, 3.9GHz or AMD equivalent
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 390
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 68 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 42
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Unsupported
- Graphics settings cannot be configured to run well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian. Text only: Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese.
Tags
- Story Rich
- Action
- Time Manipulation
- Sci-fi
- Singleplayer
- Cinematic
- Third Person
- Third-Person Shooter
- Choices Matter
- Atmospheric
- Time Travel
- Episodic
- Adventure
- Shooter
- Bullet Time
- Great Soundtrack
1 DLC available.
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