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Maxwell's puzzling demon cover art

Maxwell's puzzling demon

muratsubo Games · 2024-08-29

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 29, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Thermodynamic" puzzle where Maxwell's demon does work of block-pushing. Deal those hot blocks with cold blocks so that the demon doesn't get burnt.

98%
positive of 424 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 104 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity down 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 14,267 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.5k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 424 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $10.49 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
393920242026Week of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$10.492024-08-302026-07-092024-08-30 — best price $12.742024-09-08 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $11.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-21 — best price $11.992025-04-28 — best price $14.992025-05-29 — best price $11.242025-06-05 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $11.242025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $11.242025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $11.242026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.242026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-05-28 — best price $11.242026-06-04 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $10.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
56%
earned "The world of temperature"
5.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1925%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCuteIndieLogicCasualPuzzleSokobanAbstractDifficultSingleplayer

Census log

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

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