Pixplode
Skip · Short indie · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 1.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.32/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 209 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1420 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
Pixplode is a 3d puzzle game with 2d physics mechanics. At first glance puzzle seem to be impossible to solve, but why not to change the view of the whole level? Over 40 detailed levels allow you to rack your brains for a long time!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 16 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 203 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is less well reviewed than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, A Little to the Left ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball ($1.99, scores 21).
More about Pixplode
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
43% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pixplode scores 31/100 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/631770/pixplodeReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.