PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

Skip · Multiplayer · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 0 of 8 sales

It scores 43, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Cost per hour
$0.57/hr
Reviews▼
77% of 1,107
Critics
68 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 25% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

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

Typical playtime
17.6h
To 100%
30.6h 1.7x the story
Achievements
32

Price and sales

Sales
32 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$1.99 June 2015
Sale every
55d last August 2026
All-time low $1.19 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3 now
Cheaper than
34% of its genre
Better reviewed
70% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

55% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 32 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart.

Its score puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Gunsmith ($19.99, scores 19).

More about PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 77 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.

1 of the 305 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 305 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

What players say

NOM NOM where your mission is to create a Soup company in unexplored planets with some kind of aliens but no worries you have soup to make send them with your rockets to the gullets of thee galaxy Fun game to play and if you have friends its even more fun so yes total worth it
狮KohanRecommendedafter 14hOct 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Buy this on the xbox or ps4. On PC it's a buggy mess. It's actually disgraceful they just leave this on here to generate money. The bug that made me stop playing, was new recipes not being saved. I enjoy unlocking new planets. So when I play a level, I usually try to discover around 12 new recipes at least. This, as you might expect, takes longer than completing a level normally. Then after 2 hours to find out that...
tomraiNot recommendedafter 9.9hFeb 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA 9800 GT, 645 MB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy scores 43/100 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/226100/pixeljunk-nom-nom-galaxy
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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+9
Critics68
Players77
Metacritic critics · 1,107 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperQ-Games Ltd.
PublisherQ-Games Ltd.
GenreMultiplayer
Released2015
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32