Orb of Creation
Fair · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.59. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 49.3h
- Value
- $0.19/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Integrated Graphics, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was February 2025. It has been discounted 3 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 81 weeks between sales. Today's $9.59 at 20 percent off still sits 140 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms (free, scores 44).
5 of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
34% start to <1% 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
Players
303 players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I hadn't played the original so i came into 1.0 blind, and I've been playing obsessively. This is obviously a double-edged sword, and your tolerance for addictive gameplay loops will determine your experience, but I've enjoyed my first few games, especially NG+ Some advice: tooltips are essential, as is the space bar search function, to figure out what's going on. Making your own keybinds speeds things up a lot, and...
-stares at the 88 hours i have in this game- yeah i guess it's good. no for real like, probably the smartest spreadsheet game i've played, although it can be REALLY annoying at times. if you wanna sit and optimize numbers with endless interesting variation and that's ALL you want, this is the game for you.
After spending a long time in this game, I wish this game was an idler or didn't change how it was in the beta Okay, to understand why this game should of picked, lets talk about how the game used to play and why it's fun Like many idle/incremental games you gather resources to get upgrades, but unlike most games you don't have a horrible starting way to get resources and slowly get upgrades that give you a trickle...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Orb of Creation scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1910680/orb-of-creationReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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