Broken Lens

Broken Lens

Team RUN · July 22, 2024 · Casual, Exploration, Point & Click, Hidden Object, Singleplayer

Buy Broken Lens from Steam at $6.99 — the cheapest of 3 stores we compare.

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Very Positive90% · 272 📉 Recent reviews down 82%5playing now
Best price
$6.99
lowest tracked $3.49
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Where to buy Broken Lens — official stores

Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$6.99
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Humble Store
Humble Store
Standard Edition · Steam
$6.99
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Nuuvem
Nuuvem
Standard Edition · Steam
$6.99
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Broken Lens price by region

Broken Lens costs £5.89 in the United Kingdom, $6.99 in the United States, €6.99 in Europe (EUR), $6.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$8.99 in Canada, A$10.00 in Australia, NZ$10.49 in New Zealand, R$23.50 in Brazil and zł30.54 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Broken Lens offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £5.89 £5.89 — 2
United Statesyour region $6.99 $6.99 — 3
Europe (EUR) €6.99 €6.99 — 2
Georgia (USD) $6.99 $6.99 — 3
Canada CA$8.99 CA$8.99 — 3
Australia A$10.00 A$10.00 — 3
New Zealand NZ$10.49 NZ$10.49 — 2
Brazil R$23.50 R$23.50 — 3
Poland zł30.54 zł30.54 — 2

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Broken Lens

Broken Lens is a relaxing game where you will discover the story of a little robot with a sight problem.

Gameplay


Inspired by the classic game of our childhood "spot the differences", Broken Lens allows you to renew the experience with a new exploration system.

Move the point of view and zoom in to travel through works of art to find and get rid of the differences between your two visual sensors.

Take your time to explore the artworks. Don’t forget to pay attention to the smallest and the biggest details, anomalies can be hidden anywhere.

Collect the lost pages scattered across different biomes to know more about this world!

Features

  • - A relaxing wholesome experience
  • - Travel thought artworks with a smooth exploration system
  • - Adorable creatures and environments
  • - Relaxing journey where you play at your own pace
  • - Various worlds to explore
  • - Hidden pages to collect
  • - A rich and extremely cute universe
  • - Escape to a peaceful world
  • - Investigate to help the little robot and understand its background

Development team


Team RUN is a tiny team of French indie dev composed by a combination of effort from EncreMecanique, Hephep, Malyss, Welrod, Yomoeh and Mellyfroggy.

EncreMecanique, known as a tattoo artist, now wears a new hat as graphic designer. Every single element of Broken Lens is hand-drawn.
On the other hand, Hephep is involved as our game developer. With meticulousness, he designed a new exploration system and a smooth gameplay to renew the experience of spotting the differences.
Malyss, our narrative designer, is the one who gives the game its singular sparkle and strong overall cohesion to the little robot’s story.
Welrod, our sound designer, polished the tiniest details for a perfect immersion.
Yomoeh, implicated as the music composer. He brought his magic touch to harmoniously complement the project. His captivating music compositions and soundscape will allow you to have an enchanting experience.
Finally, Mellyfroggy, allied to the team as social media manager. She’s our voice on different platforms and globally on the internet.

Broken Lens — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise the game's charming art style and thoughtful soundtrack, along with its spot-the-difference gameplay that offers a genuine challenge beyond typical casual puzzle games. However, many note that the difficulty is quite demanding—some differences are extremely subtle or pixel-sized, making the game feel tedious rather than enjoyable, especially later levels, and the five secret achievements are considered exceptionally obscure; the game requires considerable patience and often necessitates using hints, which undermines the dopamine hit players typically seek from these games.

Recommended Sep 5, 2026
Enjoyable find the difference game so far.
Recommended Aug 20, 2026
Really cute, Great story and Fun! :3
Recommended Aug 2, 2026
Cool story. Fun game overall. Sometiems frusterating as the difference as as little as a 1mm line that out of place. But mostly the differences are meaningful.
Recommended Jul 29, 2026
Cute relaxing game with a nice soundtrack.
Not recommended Jul 21, 2026
A very cute game with unique mechanics. I can not recommend this on the basis that it crashes my entire PC every other boot-up. I've played it for 5 hours but a decent chunk of that was being stuck trying to close it while it drops my entire computer to 0.3fps (this is accurate, 1 frame every 3 seconds) until I manually turn off my PC. If this worked well with my system its a great game that is engaging and challenging, but BG3 crashed less than this. I'm outside of my window to refund; I would if I could. It is borderline unplayable.
Recommended Jul 14, 2026
Got this on sale and thought it was a cute spot the difference game. It was exactly that however there was a story to the game that made it clearly much sadder than expected. Whilst at it's base is spotting the difference between images it's not a simple game. Sometimes the difference are very slight. Highly recommend you take breaks when you play this because staring at the pictures can be tiring to find the differences. Issues I had with the game sometimes a click didn't quite register. It's not major as there is not tracker or score related to clicks. Another issue is the hint button is in the middle at the bottom of the screen. You could accidentally hit that if you're trying to click on a difference you see. Just have to be careful around the button. There was one major bug where an optional extra was felt like it was bugged Chapter 2 level 4. I had to find a Youtube video to find it and then It was done by accident. I did enjoy finding the differences but, also the deeper puzzles related to the story within the journal pages you find. For those who enjoy decoding a foreign language this game is for you. Figuring out that puzzle was difficult and fun. It's worth playing i…

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