Blocks That Matter
Fair · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.86/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 785
- Critics
- 72 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.8h
- To 100%
- 22.4h 3.9x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 32
Price and sales
- Sales
- 48 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 March 2013
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 71% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 48 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 71 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Thank Goodness You're Here! ($19.99, scores 66) and Creaks ($19.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
More about Blocks That Matter
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
5.8 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.9 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
من زمان مالعبتها بس اللي اتذكره جيدا انها لعبة جابت اسلوب لعب جديد في حل الالغاز ممكن تناسبك
1 more review, not recommended
The best part of this game is the passion that the developers put towards recognizing other franchises. Unless you're a serious puzzle nut who is OK with the game (not the puzzles) being frustrating, I can't recommend.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL compatible 128Mo VRAM, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Blocks That Matter scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/111800/blocks-that-matterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 2, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.