Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad

Worth it · Short indie · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.59, a BANGER if it drops to $0.98.

Length
0.5h
Value
$3.18/hr
Reviews
96% of 320 positive
It needs 51% off ($0.98) to be a BANGER.

Full price

Worth it$1.99

Today

−20%Worth it
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.98 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$3.18/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $3.98/hr
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 290 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

Drop adorable fruit to merge them and create even larger fruit in this cozy physics puzzle game!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated or dedicated graphics with OpenGL 3.3 support., 174 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

29 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.59 at 20 percent off still sits 61 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zuma Deluxe ($4.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Airscape - The Fall of Gravity ($4.99, scores 63).

More about Fruit Salad

Of the 290 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.

At 0.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

94% 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

Players online
6 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 04:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's a game of pure relaxation. Simple, with nice physics, and cherries that just get in the way of your moves. I did find a small bug though, sometimes the second track starts playing, and yet two seconds later the first one starts up again. I also tried on the Steam Deck. The game crashes after you lose a level. It's still a very relaxing and fun game though, and the different game modes help to add some variety...
ChikaRecommendedafter 2.6h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
So i loved this game, but after not playing any games whatsoever for maybe a month or two it just stopped working and i checked all my other games and they are fine! its just this game and i dont know why, if anyone can help it would be much appreciated!
Adeline RoseRecommendedafter 12hJan 2026Read on Steam
Buen juego si estas preso en el CECOT y quieres desperdiciar tu vida viendo pixeles de color
QuindRecommendedafter 12hSep 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Fruit Salad scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1848520/fruit-salad
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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 Sep 29, 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

DeveloperThe Dead Pixel Society, LLC
PublisherThe Dead Pixel Society, LLC
GenreShort indie
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements30