The Pony Factory
Fair · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.7h 1h to 100%
- Value
- $5.70/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 856 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.27 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Winston thought he could use heavy machinery and power from the depths of hell to transform sinful men into magic ponies. Winston was wrong.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 28 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Squirrel Stapler ($7.99, scores 71) and Chop Goblins ($4.99, scores 81) both outscore it.
More about The Pony Factory
This site sampled 373 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 744 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 95 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 23:05 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Even at the price it's too short. Couldn't care about the story line. I give the dev credit for his efforts but honestly don't care if I ever played it.
1 more review, not recommended
gd not even worth the 3 buck i payed... 91% wtf is wrong with you ppl??? Im not getting a rfund cuz i pirated iron lung we will call it even
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Pony Factory scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2536530/the-pony-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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.