Crayon Physics Deluxe
Skip · Short indie · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9990% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.26/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 1,182
- Critics
- 79 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 24% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.8h
- To 100%
- 7.8h 2.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 56 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2017
- Sale every
- 69d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Learn to Fly 3 (free, scores 83) and Contraption Maker ($12.99, scores 75) both outscore it.
More about Crayon Physics Deluxe
Of the 220 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.8 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.1 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 29 days ago.
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
What players say
I loved this game when I was too young to understand what a PC was, probably 5 or 6, but I was so bad at it. Now I'm 23, on the same family steam account, and writing reviews for every game in what is now my collection thanks to the new-yet-old family features. I'm not going back to this one (on principle), but how could I ever rate it negatively? I imagine I shall still be adding to this library when I am on my...
1 more review
It is really cute and fun, where you need to draw the solution. There are challenges to make it more demanding if you wish. It is just pure fun
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Any 3D graphics accelerator with 128 MB of texture memory, 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Crayon Physics Deluxe 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/26900/crayon-physics-deluxeReviews 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.