How To Grow a Black Hole

How To Grow a Black Hole

Steam Deck Playable

Desolation Digital · Casual · Jun 23, 2026

It depends on what you're after.

At $3.99. We haven't seen it on sale.

69%
Mixed
554 player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 48 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 41 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Optimization: 6 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 554 player reviews · updated 2 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise25% are divided25% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The gameplay itself, excluding the balance that you have to find for the black hole, it's really relaxing and easily enjoyable with the fantastic effects and visual that the UI and black hole have.
48 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
Visuals are great and props to the developer for being so active with the community through the discord.
41 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
Game is the opposite of optimized.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
20 ish minutes in and this game is a nice game to play to wind down and stuff, but damn it wrecks your cpu, please try and optimise this more. anyhow, graphics are good, gameplay is addicting, sound effects and music is great. just please try and optimise it a little more
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love4 themes
Gameplay48 reviews
Graphics41 reviews
Optimization6 reviews
Audio6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Performance17 reviews
65%
Interface11 reviews
55%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs10 reviews
50%
Crashes7 reviews
43%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Full price

Currently $3.99. We haven't seen it on sale yet.

2 points recordedtoday · $3.99

The data behind the verdict

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Player review score
69%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
18
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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