Poly Bridge
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512Mb, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2020. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 69 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Poly Bridge 2 ($14.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Contraption Maker ($12.99, scores 75).
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 18 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 3,318 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.8 hours; clearing it takes 37, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
63% start to <1% 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
66 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fun physics based puzzle game! What it's lacking is any kind of tutorial. Many levels need mechanical concepts that the game never introduces, which makes it often very hard to determine how the level is meant to be beat. At least a mention of the concepts would be nice. Also, a lot of the gameplay is just adjusting the bridge endlessly until it doesn't break, which is not interesting. I know there's a poly bridge 2...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Poly Bridge scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/367450/poly-bridgeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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