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Blender
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. Free to use for everyone, for any purpose.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
69 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Dangerously addicting. There is a so many things to learn and so many youtube videos that do a great job teaching the technical details, it is incredibly rewarding when you make something fully from start to finish. If…”
“its free. render quality is impressive. a lot of tutorials on the internet. just spent like 7 hours and i know basics. you can spend 50 hours and youll be in blender like at home. spend 100 hours and you can make money…”
“I may as well do a review for the number of hours and enjoyment that I get out of this software. I'm still relatively new to it and a complete novice, but holy moly... Once you somewhat know what you're doing, it's…”
26 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“its free. render quality is impressive. a lot of tutorials on the internet. just spent like 7 hours and i know basics. you can spend 50 hours and youll be in blender like at home. spend 100 hours and you can make money…”
“It's Blender, it's a 3d modeling software. That's it, that's all it does. It's also free, it doesn't bite.”
“I'm a professional game artist and Blender is my go-to software. It's free. Also especially if you use plugins I would say it is probably the 2nd best "major" software at almost everything. This means if you want to do…”
18 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“its free. render quality is impressive. a lot of tutorials on the internet. just spent like 7 hours and i know basics. you can spend 50 hours and youll be in blender like at home. spend 100 hours and you can make money…”
“Please describe what you liked or disliked about this product and whether you reccomend it to others. Please remember to be polite and follow the Rules and Guidelines. A description is required to post your…”
“After almost a decade of using Max, I finally went to blender, and if you take the time and do some research on YouTube, you can start using blender and you'll never look back and you can say goodbye to the $300 plug-ins”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Using it for work. Amazing company. They could easily monetize this, but decided to keep it free. Better if you use paid add-ons to support the creators.”
“Been using blender for a lot longer but switched to using steam for it to easily update and also track usage time. I'm on 4.5 LTS and am currently modeling my kitchen going, relatively well. Would recommend for…”
“Blender is an incredibly powerful 3D creation suite, and the fact that it is free makes it even more impressive. It offers professional grade tools for modeling, sculpting, animation, rendering, compositing, video…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“its free. render quality is impressive. a lot of tutorials on the internet. just spent like 7 hours and i know basics. you can spend 50 hours and youll be in blender like at home. spend 100 hours and you can make money…”
“Please describe what you liked or disliked about this product and whether you reccomend it to others. Please remember to be polite and follow the Rules and Guidelines. A description is required to post your…”
“Long story mode, huge open world, good graphics 10/10 Cant wait for part 2”
21 of the 103 reviews raise this · 21 of them still recommend the game.
“Blender has gotten so advanced over the last decade or so that realistically there's not much that it can't do for working through nearly any 3D workflow pipeline. Please learn how to use the software for a good few…”
“It takes time to understand blender and how it works but once you do, its such a breeze!!”
“Lots to learn, not easy, but lots of fun and things to do with it”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“maybe it's just my feeling, the application is getting heavier”
“It's great, but honestly I like having the stable versions downloaded from Blender's actual website. Requiring steam to be open can be kind of tanky on performance (at least on my pc at the moment.) Also having to have…”
“its great, lags a bit but i dont blame it my laptop is just garbage. It has settings that make it easier for people without a mouse or a numpad (like me)”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“this games fun but theres no roguelike mechanics edit: blender crashed so there is kind of roguelike mechanics”
“Very good itself the app, but very hard to use for beginners (app installed not from steam due to compatibility with linux)”
“Hey, it might crash, it might be jank, and the people who work with it professionally on a day to day basis might treat you like you're speaking in tongues for asking basic technical questions, but at least it isn't…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate blender since I began to live. There are 387.44 million vertices that fill my viewport. If the word hate was engraved on each nano-angstrom of those hundreds of millions…”
“This is a good handy substitute if you can't get your hands on Maya or ZBrush. Maya stopped releasing the free student version so Blender is the next best thing. If you have used Maya before. You will notice the menus…”
“Easily the worst thing ive ever touched, i think id rather take all the suffering Subaru Natsuki than ever touch this again, id rather dissembowl myself 3 million times than look at this horrendous software. 10/10…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“great game, at first it was really hard to figure out the controls but I started playing more and with a bit of Xanax , I started becoming a pro. Highly recommend and definitely will make this my Game of the Year…”
“It's a amazing 3d model software but to someone who is new to 3d modeling it is extremely confusing to use, though one complaint I have is that sometimes my keybinds don't work but I'm pretty sure its my keyboard”
“At first, feels like controlling an airplane. After some time, still feels like controlling an airplane - 10/10”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 96.3% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“10/10 game. I hope they add achievements soon. It's too bad they killed off the main character, though.”
— a player, Steam review · 136 hrs played“This piece of ♥♥♥♥ software is the reason why im balding. Using this program is absolute HELL, but it gets the job done”
— a player, Steam review · 383 hrs played“-No subscriptions -Offers the same features as other paid software -Consistently productive updates -Not owned by Adobe Most valuable game on steam 10/10”
— a player, Steam review · 583 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:05 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Blender 4.5.12 LTS Maintenance Release !
Blender 4.5.12 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.5 - Stable - LTS branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties... .
Blender 4.2.23 LTS Maintenance Release !
Blender 4.2.23 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.2 - Stable - LTS branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties... .
Blender 5.2 LTS Released
What's new Blender 5.2 LTS brings a great balance of new features and stability improvements. With 2 years of support (until July 2028), it is the perfect choice for long-term productions. The Geometr
Blender 4.5.11 LTS Maintenance Release !
Blender 4.5.11 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.5 - Stable - LTS branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties... .
Blender 4.2.22 LTS Maintenance Release !
Blender 4.2.22 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.2 - Stable - LTS branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties... .
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration, Video Production |
| Player tags | Animation & Modeling · Software · Design & Illustration · Free to Play · Game Development · Video Production · 3D · Difficult · GameMaker · Utilities · Physics · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese |
| Estimated owners | 5,000,000 – 10,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.blender.org |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 8.1 Processor: 4 cores with SSE4.2 support Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 2GB RAM, OpenGL 4.3 Storage: 1 GB available space