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Plasma
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“dude the people are asking so badly, at least just come back add multiplayer. i'm asking only you dry cactus games. also good job on the intro thing i just viewed it while writing this :)”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“A really nice game but i just hate the fact they stopped developing it...”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“I got this and played for 7 hours in my first game... (FYI: THAT'S A NEW HIGH FOR ME!?) I really enjoyed playing and just messing around with stuff, I made a house, a box that trolls you when you open it [which got deleted because I accidentally held M2 ): ] then I messed around…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:06 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. 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.
If you love something, set it Free-to-play!
Dear Engineers, We have two pieces of news to share today, a good one and a bad one. Starting with the good one, from May 30 Plasma will be free to download and play here on Steam. We are doing this i
Update 0.4.0.0
Dear Engineers, We're excited to push our first update out since resuming development. Today we're bringing some commonly requested features and improvements, thanks to everyone who is contributing wi
Development Resuming
Dear Engineers, We are excited to share the news that development on Plasma is resuming. The team has shrunk back to its original 2 co-founders (Patrick and Marco) and we're still not exactly sure whe
Development Hiatus
Dear Engineers, With great reluctance we announce today that Plasma is going on an indefinite development hiatus. It has been an incredible 6 year journey, Plasma being the longest and most ambitious
Engineering Challenge: Sumo Bots
Summer is here and we want to invite you to join our biggest Engineering Challenge yet! We have a special themed World just for the occasion, download it from the Workshop using World ID: 2993542422 D
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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 | Indie, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Simulation · Sandbox · 3D · Exploration · Choose Your Own Adventure · Building · First-Person · Programming · Automation · Stylized · Logic · Robots (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Workshop |
| Languages | English |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.plasma.game |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-6350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space