Crayon Physics Deluxe
Skip · Short indie · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 3.9h
- Value
- $5.13/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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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.
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.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2017. It has been discounted 55 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Value 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. Among the games that feel like it, Learn to Fly 3 (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Wordle ($30.62, scores 31).
Of the 212 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 207 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.9 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.0 times as long.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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...
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
Quirky and addictive. Draw objects with crayons and watch them observe laws of physics. Object? Get a ball somewhere. Dozens of solutions each level. 100% functional on Linux. Recommend++
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Crayon Physics Deluxe scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/26900/crayon-physics-deluxeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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