Flower
Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.
- Released
- 2009
- Developer
- Not recorded
- Platforms
- 2 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- Not stated
What is Flower?
Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 12 February 2009 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Not recorded |
| Publisher | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| Platforms | PlayStation Vita, Steam Deck |
| Genres | Action Adventure |
| Languages | 17 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q1825218, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Flower received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | Not stated |
| Add-on content | None listed |
| Age gate | None |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Flower on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Performance and stutter24 of 300 (8%)
The framerate sometimes gets stuck at 30 and nothing I do fixes it.
Steam review, 18 May 2023 · 8 hours played · 46 readers marked it helpfulLoading screen sometimes stutters.
Steam review, 3 May 2024 · 2 hours played · 27 readers marked it helpful - Motion sickness and comfort24 of 300 (8%)
With the frustrating controls, you spend a lot of time just missing, spinning quickly, missing again, and it starts to become clear why people complain of motion sickness.
Steam review, 24 October 2022 · 2 hours played · 21 readers marked it helpfulCouldn't finish due to motion sickness, played what I could over several attempts.
Steam review, 27 December 2022 · 2 hours played · 17 readers marked it helpful - Crashes and freezes17 of 300 (6%)
Game crashes inexplicably on the Steam Deck.
Steam review, 31 March 2024 · 0 hours played · 32 readers marked it helpfulI had to use the nvidia control panel to force fps at 60 because the game crashed otherwise.
Steam review, 21 June 2026 · 7 hours played · 12 readers marked it helpful - Visual glitches14 of 300 (5%)
There's a lot of flickering in the first stage and the controls are terrible.
Steam review, 18 May 2023 · 8 hours played · 46 readers marked it helpfulI've had problems with flickering grass and sound issues.
Steam review, 21 May 2021 · 0 hours played · 21 readers marked it helpful - Audio and subtitles11 of 300 (4%)
I encountered a lot of sound and graphics issues.
Steam review, 3 May 2024 · 2 hours played · 27 readers marked it helpfulI've had problems with flickering grass and sound issues.
Steam review, 21 May 2021 · 0 hours played · 21 readers marked it helpful - Will not launch or install10 of 300 (3%)
Had no sound and videos were just a black screen, to fix this I had to run the game with admin privileges and disable full screen optimizations in the properties.
Steam review, 13 April 2024 · 1 hours played · 14 readers marked it helpfulThe opening cinematic was broken, and just showed a black screen.
Steam review, 12 July 2025 · 0 hours played · 11 readers marked it helpful
A further 21 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
Games like Flower
24 games overlap with Flower on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Webbed, The Witness and Townscaper.
Common questions about Flower
What platforms is Flower on?
Flower is available on PlayStation Vita, Steam Deck. It first released in 2009.
How much does Flower cost?
$1.39 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Flower?
79% of 5,095 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mostly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Flower work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Flower as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.