Potion Explosion
Skip · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$6.99Skip
On its price record
$2.71Fair
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $13.98/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 265 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.71 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 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
The official adaptation of Potion Explosion, the award-winning puzzle board game. Explode ingredients, trigger chain reactions and gather it all in your caldron to craft powerful mixtures with wacky effects! May the best wizard win!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated, 369 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
36 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pixel Puzzles Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles (free, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats Adorables ($29.99, scores 30).
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 23:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Needs an undo last move option. I do have to wonder if in the base game you are a) required to preserve any unused ingredients in your stash (or if you can play defensibly and opt not to so your opponent can't steal) and b) if you can opt to stash an ingredient (I.e. for use with a wild-card potion) instead of (what the game does) force you to fill in any matching slot in one of your active potions you're...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Potion Explosion scores 38/100 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/788420/potion-explosionReviews 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.