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Fractal: Make Blooms Not War cover art

Fractal: Make Blooms Not War

Cipher Prime Studios · 2011-11-29

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 06, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 06, 2011 (Mac)

Push, Combo, and Chain your way through a pulsing technicolor dreamscape all the while expanding your consciousness at 130 BPM.

Fractal: Make Blooms Not War is a 2011 Casual Indie game priced at $6.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 217 reviews).

0
playing now
75%
positive of 217 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Fractal: Make Blooms Not War is a puzzle video game by Cipher Prime. The game involves pushing hexagonal fragments together to form large hexagons and chain reactions.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 300% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.7k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 217 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.04 at Steam (2015-12-22) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720112026Week of 2011-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2012-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2012-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2012-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$1.042015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $6.992015-12-22 — best price $1.042016-03-01 — best price $6.992016-06-23 — best price $2.092017-11-28 — best price $6.992020-04-21 — best price $5.132020-08-02 — best price $6.992020-08-06 — best price $5.132020-08-19 — best price $6.992020-08-25 — best price $5.132020-11-28 — best price $6.992020-12-26 — best price $6.292021-02-13 — best price $5.132021-02-23 — best price $6.992021-04-02 — best price $5.132021-06-16 — best price $6.992021-06-28 — best price $5.132021-07-19 — best price $6.292021-08-16 — best price $5.132021-09-20 — best price $6.292021-10-05 — best price $5.132024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-12-04 — best price $6.992025-03-13 — best price $2.792025-07-10 — best price $6.992025-12-18 — best price $2.792026-03-26 — best price $6.992026-07-09 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2002026-06-01 — 2 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1 pageviews2026-06-09 — 3 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 2 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-29 — 0 pageviews2026-07-03 — 20 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 2 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-31 — 0 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 0 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-20 — 4 pageviews2026-08-24 — 2 pageviews2026-08-28 — 2 pageviews2026-09-01 — 3 pageviews2026-09-05 — 5 pageviews2026-09-09 — 3 pageviews2026-09-13 — 4 pageviews2026-09-17 — 3 pageviews2026-09-21 — 1 pageviews2026-09-25 — 2 pageviews2026-09-29 — 2 pageviews2026-10-03 — 4 pageviews2026-10-07 — 1 pageviews2026-10-10 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzle

Census log

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

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