Everyday Genius: SquareLogic

Everyday Genius: SquareLogic

BANGER · Strategy · 2009

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $4.99.

Length
17.9h 1500h to 100%
Value
$0.28/hr
Reviews
98% of 443 positive
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Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3210 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

Raising the score
Value$0.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 96% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 92 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

About the game

The next generation of puzzle games is here! Combining simple arithmetic with colorful cages and logical problem solving, this new puzzle game makes sure you never have to guess—and you don’t have to be a math wiz!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 32 MB Video Card. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 8 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 459 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pictopix ($6.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Hexcells Plus ($2.99, scores 90).

The math says it holds its tier up to $21.22.

More about Everyday Genius: SquareLogic

17.9 hours to finish it, 1500 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 84 times the campaign.

The drop-off

94% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

It's the kind of thing I constantly come back to whenever I want to unwind from something else going on in my life. Has so much to do that I'll probably be playing this for another decade with no issue whatsoever, which suits me fine. Rules are all simple to grasp, it's just a matter of keeping everything straight so you don't make a mistake but it's fine if you do since that's just an opportunity to learn and...
More like Rai-don't!Recommendedafter 81hJan 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I love it. It's a simple and in my opinion more fun variant of Sudoku. It's not fast paced, it's great for a mellow day, especially if it's raining. Do the tutorial and pay attention to the possible solutions listed in the top right and it's easy. or disable them and do it hard core.
SexyFelineMachineRecommendedafter 1.3hDec 2025Read on Steam
It's only taken 160 total hours over the past 10 years to finally get all the achievements. Now, I still have about another 20,000 puzzles to solve.... see you in 2125!
GeneSteelerRecommendedafter 160hOct 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Everyday Genius: SquareLogic scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/32150/everyday-genius-squarelogic
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTrueThought
PublisherTrueThought
GenreStrategy
Released2009
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24