Starmancer
Skip · Strategy · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 61% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compatible GPU, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.74. That was December 2025. 18 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 13 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Haven ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Maia ($24.99, scores 0).
This site sampled 640 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 640 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Starmancer scores 6/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1062000/starmancerReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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