Crystal Crisis

Crystal Crisis

Skip · Multiplayer · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 23, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
2.3h 12.4h to 100%
Value
$8.69/hr
Reviews
70% of 443 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Holding it back
Reviews70% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$8.69/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 82 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

An all-star cast of heroes has gathered to test their mettle in this cute and chaotic new color-matching ONLINE combat game! Crystal Crisis is presented like a fighting game, but players attack by arranging falling crystals and clearing them from the screen. It’s the ultimate Online puzzle battle throwdown!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.2 compliant video card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 37 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, PICO PARK ($4.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Surgeon Simulator 2 ($19.99, scores 0).

More about Crystal Crisis

HowLongToBeat players log 2.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 5.4 times as much.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

36% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
66 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 20:52 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Solid Super Puzzle Fighter 2 clone. If you've played that, then you mostly know what to expect here. I did a quick playthrough if both that game and this title, and I can say that the game designers of Crystal Crisis knew what made Super Puzzle Fighter 2 fun. There is a brand new burst system here where you can spend meter that is gained upon eliminating pieces on defensive or offensive attacks that are unique to...
KoolRanchRecommendedafter 3.9h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Crystal Crisis scores 23/100 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/447700/crystal-crisis
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNicalis, Inc.
PublisherNicalis, Inc.
GenreMultiplayer
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20