Idle Spiral

Idle Spiral

Skip · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Price
Free to play
Reviews
80% positive
Cite this score
Length
No data
no length in our data yet
Completionist
1386.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
80%
1,902 reviews, as of Sep 24
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX10, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 79% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Idle Research (free, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Banana (free, scores 43).

320 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 28, 11:49 UTC.

The drop-off

87% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

320 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 11:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Idle Spiral scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 1,902 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/1827980/idle-spiral
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Reviews 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 Sep 24.

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Details

DeveloperIdle System, Inc.
PublisherIdle System, Inc.
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Achievements32