Pythagoria
Skip · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.3h 3.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 259 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 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
About the game
Pythagoria is a brain-teasing number puzzle game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel GMA 500/NVIDIA GeForce 6200 or equivalent, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 33 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre. Zup! S ($1.99, scores 96) outscores it, and so does Pictopix ($6.99, scores 95). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Pythagoria
Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
1.3 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
77% start to 37% 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
What players say
This game made me feel something I haven't felt in a long time. Not excitement or adrenaline, but focus. Real, honest focus. The kind you get when the world fades away and it's just you and the problem in front of you. Pythagoria doesn't reward guessing or brute force. It rewards thinking. Sometimes I'd sit with a single puzzle for nearly an hour, not because I was stuck, but because I wanted to understand it fully...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Pythagoria is a maths puzzle game. School is long behind me and so are all of those formulas, so it was honestly very hard to get into this game. I did all of the square levels, but I don't remember nor care for the triangle/circle ones so take this review with a grain of salt. Obviously this game is not a very 'fun' game unless you love maths and I don't really have a thing for maths so for me it's not a very good...
2/5 The game is primitive and lacks self-identity. I've passed the game for achievements by simply clicking all the numbers until the guess is correct. Not saying that it should've had a small story and characters but something wholesome would make the dev more profits. People only buy these types of games for steam trading cards, badges and achievements, sometimes there is some soul can be found but most of the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pythagoria scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/434620/pythagoriaReviews 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.