Cubot

Cubot

Worth it · Short indie · 2015

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99.

Length
2.2h 2.5h to 100%
Value
$0.90/hr
Reviews
90% of 273 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2806 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$0.91/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 18 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

At first sight, Cubot is a puzzle-game with a minimalist gameplay, just move color cubes towards tiles of the same color. It's really easy, but it will be a torture for your mind to complete all levels of the game because the apparent simplicity of the game is in contradiction with the complexity of the level-design.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 12 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 19 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 401 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, qop ($1.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats hexceed (free, scores 72).

More about Cubot

Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

55% start to 8% 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

"Complexity in Simplicity" is an apt tagline. The click-and-drag workings are as simple as it gets, but how the cubes interact with the environment and each other is what makes for the rich and varied gameplay experience. The synth and chime mixture is good for making a soothing soundtrack. No story to speak of here; it's all puzzles. There's also a mild personality to the game itself, both in how it expresses...
An Easy TargetRecommendedafter 1.1hFeb 2024Read 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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Cubot scores 75/100 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/340280/cubot
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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

DeveloperNicolas Pierre-Loti-Viaud
PublisherNicolas Pierre-Loti-Viaud
GenreShort indie
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10