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Energy Cycle cover art

Energy Cycle

Sometimes You · 2016-01-13

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 20, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Jan 13, 2016 (Linux), Jan 13, 2016 (Mac), Jan 13, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 20, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Dec 25, 2017 (Nintendo Switch)

'Energy Cycle' – new puzzle game from the developers of ‘Energy Balance’. When you click each cell on the game field - it changes color, and the colors of adjacent cells horizontally and vertically. Your task to bring all the cells to the same color. Sounds pretty easy, but try to do it!

0
playing now
69%
positive of 295 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
17/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
$0.62
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.4k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 295 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.62-79%
Microsoft Store$2.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.20 at GreenManGaming (2019-04-02) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 10 of 21 observed days · $2.79 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

33802026-08-06 23:00 — 32 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 153 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 113 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 256 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 78 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 35 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 286 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 268 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 71 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 110 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 286 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 307 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 184 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 74 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 299 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 294 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 232 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 56 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 80 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 17 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 20 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.202016-01-132026-08-272016-01-13 — best price $0.892016-05-23 — best price $0.792016-10-14 — best price $0.742017-01-02 — best price $0.992017-04-12 — best price $0.592017-08-29 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $1.192018-02-15 — best price $1.192018-05-24 — best price $0.992018-09-13 — best price $0.992018-12-20 — best price $0.892019-04-02 — best price $0.202019-07-17 — best price $1.502019-11-26 — best price $0.592020-01-12 — best price $0.692020-03-26 — best price $2.692020-07-14 — best price $2.992020-11-02 — best price $0.502021-01-18 — best price $2.992021-06-14 — best price $2.992021-11-01 — best price $2.992022-01-05 — best price $2.992022-04-11 — best price $2.992022-07-25 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $0.592023-01-16 — best price $2.992023-05-01 — best price $2.992023-08-07 — best price $2.992023-12-18 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $2.992024-07-22 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-07-21 — best price $2.992026-01-12 — best price $2.992026-05-18 — best price $2.992026-08-27 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editorRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzle

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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