Tricky Towers
Worth it · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.62/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 16,547
- Critics
- 80 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Short indie
Why
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.7h
- To 100%
- 37.2h 3.8x the story
- Achievements
- 29
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $4.49 December 2022
- Sale every
- 38d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 56 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
59% start to <1% 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
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in December 2022. Across all 79 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Rubber Bandits ($2.49, scores 62) and Fling to the Finish ($19.99, scores 61).
More about Tricky Towers
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 10 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
28 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,924 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.7 hours; clearing it takes 37, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Played with friends, and had a blast. Played on my own, and felt hopelessly inept. This might be a skill issue.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Tricky Towers scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/437920/tricky-towersReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.