SpaceChem
BANGER · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.24/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 5,100
- Critics
- 84 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 41.5h
- To 100%
- 64h 1.5x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 November 2014
- Sale every
- 50d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
36% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
72 discounts in the 14 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 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Infinifactory ($12.49, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Human Resource Machine ($14.99, scores 74).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $35.64. It costs $9.99.
More about SpaceChem
The press gave it 84; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 41.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 358 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 289 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
Epic puzzle game. The solutions are all logical and completion is always just out of reach but never impossible. After having this game for 10 years and spent 93 hours trying to beat it, I've never felt so elated to see the credits of a game roll by. The final level/boss is tough as nails but like the other levels, not impossible if you break down the steps bit by bit. I enjoyed the story too, it added a little...
1 more review
I got this game just for TF2 items a year ago. Then I realized this game is for smart people
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, frame buffer support recommended, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
SpaceChem scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/92800/spacechemReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.