Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99.
- Length
- 27.7h
- Value
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 380, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $10.49, set in November 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 59 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Engineers ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Empyrion - Galactic Survival ($19.99, scores 56).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,061 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
53% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
270 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I've avoided this game for the longest time, I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe I wasn't convinced by the reviews, maybe the gameplay just didn't attract me quite enough. Then I decided to buy it during a sale, and I regret it fully. I have never played a more tedious and frustrating game than this. I prefer Getting Over It or Baby Steps over this any day. Let's start with the biggest frustration. The timer. And I...
Such a fun game ruined by unskippable 2-3 minutes dialogues from LGBT character literally annoying the bejesus out of me. Unnecessary, irrelevant dialogue almost after every shift, talking about how she didn't kiss or take some girl home. The fact that they couldn't put a simple skip option speaks VOLUMES. They really wanna push a narrative that has nothing to do with the theme of the game. Played in the hope the...
one of the best unique games I've played this year. If you are a fan of chill but high quality job simulators this one is a must play. 8/10.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1161580/hardspace-shipbreakerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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