Puddle
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 5.3h 12.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 510 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3577 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
Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 645 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 18 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 511 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 34 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Snake Pass ($3.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball ($1.99, scores 21).
More about Puddle
Steam's global achievement data puts 51 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
5.3 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 51% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
I've been in Steam for more than 10 years and this one is the first game that I ever bought. Very good game if you want something chill
1 more review, not recommended
What starts out as an interesting concept turns into frustration with time. Normally physics based games have a bit of randomness to them as they are driven by physics and things tend to not play out the same way twice. In this case, it is a physics game, but your "character" is not a fixed thing. What I mean is that the fluid you are controlling can spread, meaning the camera tries to look at the center of your...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Puddle scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/222140/puddleReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.