Dream Pinball 3D

Dream Pinball 3D

Skip · Strategy · 2012

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 2, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Cost per hour▼
$11.10/hr
Reviews▼
45% of 1,028
Critics
61 players 16 lower
Genre rank
Top 96% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
0.9h
To 100%
1.8h 2.0x the story

Price and sales

Sales
112 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.69 September 2014
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.99 at GOGall-time low $0.59 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
29% of its genre
Better reviewed
1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

112 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.

It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer (free, scores 5) beats it on value, while it beats Mobile Empire ($1.19, scores 0).

More about Dream Pinball 3D

61 on Metacritic, 45 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 300 reviews written there were positive, against 45 percent overall, and those are 82 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 2, 2.0 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 6 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$11.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 46% after the small-sample adjustment
DRMThird-party DRM
Third-party copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds0 of 72 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

FINGER-FLIPPIN’, POWERFUL PINBALL!No room for a pinball machine? So what! With DREAM PINBALL 3D you can transform your PC or console into 6 different, multilevel, 3D pinball machines! Clever gameplay, plus balls made of different materials – and each material has special ballistic properties that affect how those balls roll!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader 1.3 graphics card with 128 MB, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Dream Pinball 3D scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/215790/dream-pinball-3d
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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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-16
Critics61
Players45
Critic darling, cooler with players. Read recent reviews before buying.
Metacritic critics · 1,028 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperASK Homework
PublisherTopWare Interactive
GenreStrategy
Released2012
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate