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The Tool

Mikhail Maksimov · Garage Digital · 2020-10-30

Steam

CasualFree To PlayIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 30, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 30, 2020 (Mac)

Relaxing casual puzzle game. Create your own combinations of physical world objects, watch and run physical simulations, create new messages and share your creations with other players. Receive packages from the cloud and unpack it.

The Tool is a 2020 Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Simulation game priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 16 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

75%
positive of 16 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 82% of 29,286 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320202026Week of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

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