Energy Cycle
Skip · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.98/hr
- Reviews▼
- 69% of 295
- Genre rank
- Top 74% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.6h
- To 100%
- 0.6h
- Achievements
- 9
Price and sales
- Sales
- 114 on record
- Typical cut
- 79% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 November 2016
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 55% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 23% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
5% start to 3% 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 114 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 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fingered ($1.87, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats Crystals of Time ($6.99, scores 14).
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
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2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A pretty interesting color matching puzzle game. Would've been cuter if they replace the energy balls with actual cats...
Pros: + The only graphic/animation in the game are the energy orbs, which I'll give some credit for Cons: - music is very unsettling. It's like the developers just threw various sound effects into a blender and tried to see what would stick. - The puzzle mechanics are functional, but it's very bare bones. - The backgrounds don't really add in or tie to the puzzle element of the game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
'Energy Cycle' – new puzzle game from the developers of ‘Energy Balance’. When you click each cell on the game field - it changes color, and the colors of adjacent cells horizontally and vertically. Your task to bring all the cells to the same color. Sounds pretty easy, but try to do it!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB Dedicated Memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Energy Cycle scores 21/100 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/415960/energy-cycleReviews 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.