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Newton's Fourth Law

Newtonian Studios · 2025-01-17

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 17, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.

94%
positive of 231 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (87 reviews).
  • · Top 28% of 28,579 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.6k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 231 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.79 at Steam (2026-07-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
858520252026Week of 2025-01-17: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-01-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-24: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-31: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-07: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-28: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-07: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-14: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-11: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-28: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-11: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

12
achievements tracked
91.3%
earned "You've exceeded my expectations"
16.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1118%12

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

Player tags

3DLogicPuzzleSci-fiPhysicsScienceAdventureDifficultEducationSimulation

Census log

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

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