Petal Crash

Petal Crash

Fair · Short indie · 2020

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The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. A BANGER at $2.70, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2020 (lowest $3.19, Oct 2023).

Length
1.1h
Value
$9.08/hr
Reviews
98% of 292 positive
It needs 73% off ($2.70) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $6.91.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.70 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.19 (68% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement1% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$9.08/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 196 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Crash blocks together into huge chain reactions in this frantic arcade action puzzler! Pick your favorite character and experience their tale in the Story Mode, solve tricky brain teasers and make your own in Puzzle Mode, shoot for high scores in Solo Play, or go head to head in Versus Mode!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 28 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 12 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $2.70. No recorded sale has reached it yet.

Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UFO 50 ($24.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Iconoclasts ($19.99, scores 59).

More about Petal Crash

Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

41% start to 1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Petal Crash scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1211110/petal-crash
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFriend & Fairy
PublisherGalaxyTrail
GenreShort indie
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements27