Energy Balance
Skip · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.85/hr
- Reviews▼
- 68% of 324
- Genre rank
- Top 67% Short indie
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.5h
- To 100%
- 3.5h
- Achievements
- 9
Price and sales
- Sales
- 116 on record
- Typical cut
- 79% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 December 2017
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 55% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 20% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
7% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 116 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 79 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fingered ($1.87, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball ($1.99, scores 21).
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 18 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
What players say
Thought it was about power. Turns out it's about surviving when coffee's gone and outlets throw tantrums. I now speak fluent outlet.
2 more reviews
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
My friend I play with said that if I post a review about the game and it gets 200 likes and 100 rewards, he'll buy me a bag of chips and a RTX 4090. So I'll leave this here.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Energy Balance is a number puzzle. You have to swap power units in such a way that their sums form correct chains both vertically and horizontally. The game is easy to learn, but very hard to master. So, are you ready to peep under the hood of an alien spaceship?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB Dedicated Memory, 317 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Energy Balance scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/375010/energy-balanceReviews 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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.