Nubby's Number Factory

Nubby's Number Factory

BANGER · Roguelike · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 6 of 6 sales

A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $2.49 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hour
$1.61/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 19,841
Genre rank
Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
3.1h
To 100%
32.3h 10.4x the story
Finish
2% reach the ending
Achievements
13

Price and sales

Sales
10 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$2.49 December 2025
Sale every
66d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $2.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
200 now
Recent reviews
93% 30 days
Cheaper than
78% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

24% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 10 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Balatro ($14.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Clawler ($14.99, scores 70).

More about Nubby's Number Factory

13 of the 780 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,015 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 2,282 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 3.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 32, 10 times as much.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds13 of 780 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

this game is perfect EXCEPT for the fact that after 27 hours it reset my highscore from somewhere in the millions, down to 56 thouwow. edit: mustve been the wind cus its back
marsRecommendedafter 38h12 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i dont believe any other game has caused me to ask for a pregnancy test, but here we are
orbkidRecommendedafter 28h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
it sucks but i can't stop playing. entire game boils down to "get one of the 5 items that gets you infinite points or lose on round 35"
(¬_¬)Not recommendedafter 11hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Nubby's Number Factory scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3191030/nubby-s-number-factory
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperMogDogBlog Productions
PublisherMogDogBlog Productions
GenreRoguelike
Released2025
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13