Starminer
Skip · RPG · 2026 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 1,928
- Genre rank
- Top 72% RPG
Holding it back: Early access, Refunds
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Finish
- 57% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 58
Price and sales
- Sales
- 1 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $26.99 May 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 48 now
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 46% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
100% start to 57% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has gone on sale once in the 6 months tracked here, most recently in May 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 22 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cepheus Protocol ($19.99, scores 26) beats it on value, while it beats StarMade ($14.99, scores 15).
More about Starminer
Steam's global achievement data puts 57 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 33 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 178 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 7 of the 33 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 27 of 592 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 357 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 151 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1050 | AMD Radeon RX 560 (or similar), 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Starminer scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1116050/starminerReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.