PolyPine
Worth it · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.20.
- Length
- 4.3h 13.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.09/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 406 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.20 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 5 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
A forest simulator where you grow trees and create habitats for animals, plants and insects. Click on animals to make them poop, hunt, dig, cut and twerk! Start with a few basic seeds and attempt to grow a thriving ecosystem.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 support, 512 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 13 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.20. The record reaches that level 8 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tiny Pasture ($5.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Bird ($0.49, scores 48).
More about PolyPine
Of the 316 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
The main story runs 4.3 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 3.1 times as long.
The drop-off
84% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 18:00 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Chill game. Building ecosystems, I like! Might accidentally learn something as well.
2 more reviews
If you love incremental games, sandbox games, and nature, you'll love this game. I really like it, but I wish it had better controller settings and keyboard hotkeys - it would be nice to change the speed with a keyboard or controller. My mouse died while I was first playing on my laptop and it was hard to click with the trackpad, but I later learned you can enable auto-click for the poop once you're further into the...
Absolutely fantastic! PolyPine is such an educational and relaxing and adorable indie game. It's so simple yet so sophisticated. In this game, you learn how our ecosystem works with each other and for each other. I never thought I would learn so much in a game yet enjoy every bit of it. I fully support this game and will root for more development and expansion to the game! There is a minor issue, which is when your...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PolyPine scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2718240/polypineReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.