Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory
Skip · Action · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 2.3h 5.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.04/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 201 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.39 (80% 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 12 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
A cube of sugar escapes the factories to avoid the fate of being a cookie!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX compatible card, 184 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 73 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. It is less well reviewed than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats One Gun Guy ($0.79, scores 23).
More about Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 2.3 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
49% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
My parents used to warn me against eating sugar if I cared about my teeth, almost as if it had some magical ability to destroy matter on contact. That's exactly the power it has in Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory: a short and sweet 2D puzzle platformer in which you play as-you guessed it-a sugar cube with the passive ability to alter the physical state of almost anything he touches. Each of the 90 levels in the game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
At first I hated the game, then by the end it was bearable. I can't put my finger on why I just didn't like it. For me, I'm glad it was short, any more of it and I would've jumped off a cliff.
Grabbed this because it was - A) on sale, and B) dropped trading cards. Seemed like an easy way to use up steam funds and break even. But wow, the gameplay actually takes some lateral thinking to get around the puzzles in the game! It's very casual compared to platformers like vvv, 140, or spelunky, but this game takes a simple mechanic of tiles changing as you move past them, and works with it to create an...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/212110/sugar-cube-bittersweet-factoryReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.