Please Fix The Road
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.7h 7.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 289 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
Please Fix The Road is a colorful, minimalistic, laid-back and casual puzzle game in which it's probably not hard to guess... you're fixing roads! Your road repair doesn't have to be beautiful, it just needs to get the job done! Your mom will like this game too!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel UHD 620, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Station to Station ($8.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Furnish Master ($14.99, scores 40).
More about Please Fix The Road
This site sampled 259 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 143 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
98% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Please Fix The Road is a minimalist puzzle game developed and published by ARIELEK that transforms a straightforward concept-repairing broken infrastructure-into a deeply engaging and methodical logic experience. At its core, the game asks players to restore disrupted roads, railways, rivers, and terrain so that vehicles and other travelers can safely reach their destinations. What begins as a simple tile-placement...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Its a pretty nice small scale game, but I don't think its worth the full price on offer, but discounts come often. I've only played to near 100 puzzles as of writing this review but these are my thoughts. I wish the game would remind me what mechanics do on the cards as they can be difficult to remember if you haven't played for awhile, as well as label/readjust hotkeys. I do have some issues with how the puzzles...
The game is pretty, sure, but I didn't enjoy it at all, the puzzles feel random and are very difficult, it feels like playing 5D chess
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Cite this score
Please Fix The Road scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1383250/please-fix-the-roadReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.