Space Pirates and Zombies
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.33/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 3,174
- Critics
- 74 players 17 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Shooter
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.2h
- To 100%
- 51.4h 1.7x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2013
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 13 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
54% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 101 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Endless Sky (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Space Pirates And Zombies 2 ($19.99, scores 51).
More about Space Pirates and Zombies
74 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 30.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 360 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 134 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Fantastic old game. If you're familiar with Starsector and want more like it, this game was how a lot of people Starsector bc they played this and wanted more of it, 14 years ago. It's definitely not just more of Starsector or an inferior version of it, though. Starsector is a big sandbox game that gives you all of the mechanics and unlocks all of the gameworld right out of the box and tells you to go off and make...
2 more reviews
Works still with Win 10. No bugs seen. Should run on a toaster. Mods are in the Community Hub Diskussion as the website was nuked.
INTRODUCTION i wish there was a "meh" option and i should give this game a negative review but because the game is so old and was created by two people and is still a better option then a lot of new games made by bigger studios I'll give this a thumbs up. i started playing this back in high school and beat most of the game and then left it alone until recently where I beat this in the last couple of days. What I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB 3D DirectX 9 Compatible video card, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Space Pirates and Zombies scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/107200/space-pirates-and-zombiesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.