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The Powder Toy
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
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“I get bored I open game Make quasi-particle fusion ignited terabit star zip bomb Exit game”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“me: Bored decides to play powder toy makes two hollow squares, with indestructible wall adds gas into one square and two stickmen on another connects both squares let them suffer in gas realizing i accidentally made auschwitz worth it”
— a player, Steam review · 70 hrs played“Why THE ♥♥♥♥ this hasn't a GOTY, no, a GOFC, best ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game in the century, make it paid, it's too good to be free man, i would pay 10 dollars for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ masterpiece”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Version 100.1
A new version, 100.1, has been released with multiple bugfixes and crash fixes. This fixes all known issues discovered since 100.0, and should be the last and only minor version, as we focus on versio
Version 100.0
Changelog: New element: BASE. Corrosive liquid, neutralizes ACID New element: SEED. Grows into a tree when planted and watered Add creation reactions for AMTR, PTNM, and LITH Add optional heat conduct
Version 100.0 Beta
Version 100.0 beta has been released: New element: BASE. Corrosive liquid, neutralizes ACID New element: SEED. Grows into a tree when planted and watered Add creation reactions for AMTR, PTNM, and LIT
Version 99.5
Thank you to everyone who played "Return of the Powder Dinn". All the elements have been restored to their original names and positions with your combined efforts. Your progress is saved and can be re
Version 99.4
After a painfully long wait, the new TPT version has arrived! The game seems to have been abandoned for so long, that it's in a bit of a ... mess. The element labels have all worn off with time. We ho
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Simulation |
| Player tags | Simulation · Sandbox · 2D · Pixel Graphics · Physics · Singleplayer · Destruction · Moddable · Science · Building · Education · Free to Play (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://powdertoy.co.uk/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3 Memory: 256 MB RAM Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 100 MB available space