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The Powder Toy

The Powder Toy Team · 2024-06-14

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 06, 2016 (Android), 2009 (Linux), 2009 (Mac), 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances

98%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
The Powder Toy is a falling-sand game originally created by Stanislaw K. Skowronek. It is now developed and maintained by LBPHacker, Simon, jacob1 and other contributors on GitHub. The Powder Toy is free and open-source software (FOSS) licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0. A total of 258 different in-game materials, each with custom behavior and interactions, are available in the game. In June 2024, The Powder Toy was released on Steam, garnering an "Overwhelmingly Positive" review score.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 715 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~89/week).
  • · Review velocity up 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 10,272 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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38038020242026Week of 2024-06-01: 380 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 338 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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