Widget Inc.
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16h 95.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 779 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DX11, DX12 capable integrated graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
12 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty's Retirement ($4.19, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Sixty Four ($2.99, scores 41).
More about Widget Inc.
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026.
The main story runs 16 hours. Doing everything runs 96, 6.0 times as long.
The drop-off
97% start to 31% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 28 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 12:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I wanted to like this game as I'm a fan of clicker and incremental games. But the exponential rise in costs makes it so most of your time is spent waiting for much longer with no way to accelerate.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
2 years since release, still has game breaking bugs and others that ruins the overall experience of the game. The game is tedious and feels more like a chore than a game. QoL in-game is not that good. As a completionist, this game does not give the satisfaction of 100%-ing it.
It's a pretty good game. Very addictive. But it is a bit repetitive towards the last quarter of the game. I didn't like that even in the last chapters you are still constantly bottlenecked by the first things you made no matter how many you make. You need too many of them and the cost increases way to fast (exponentially to build more of the same buildings instead of linear). The idea to have building bonuses based...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Widget Inc. scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3184110/widget-incReviews 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.