Fractal: Make Blooms Not War
Skip · Short indie · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 4.8h 11h to 100%
- Value
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 217 positive
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, at about $2.79 (60% off). Calls like this were right 89% 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
About the game
Push, Combo, and Chain your way through a pulsing technicolor dreamscape all the while expanding your consciousness at 130 BPM.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 20 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fingered ($1.87, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball ($1.99, scores 21).
More about Fractal: Make Blooms Not War
4.8 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Fractal: Make Blooms Not War scores 34/100 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/61310/fractal-make-blooms-not-warReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.