The Powder Toy
Worth it · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 3,110
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Players and genre
- Online
- 80 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is the best reviewed of its genre. It scores the same as Thrifty Business, which costs $12.99, and this one is free.
It is still busy. 80 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 4, 04:48 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
Buy now or wait
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
About the game
The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Powder Toy scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 3,110 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1148350/the-powder-toyReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.