How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.69.
- Length
- 2.8h
- Value
- $4.18/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
An absurd backyard bomb-building simulator. Raise funds, plan your approach, hunt down rare parts, and assemble your atomic masterpiece while staying calm and avoiding suspicion from nosy neighbors and federal agents.
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
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.35. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 4 months tracked here, most recently in September 2026.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Winter Burrow ($10.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Escape Simulator ($19.99, scores 69).
Steam's global achievement data puts 88 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 488 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to 88% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3700980/how-to-make-an-atomic-bomb-in-your-gardenReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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