Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$34.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$12.2465% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.26/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 22,562
- Critics
- 83 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 27.7h
- To 100%
- 39.7h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 61 on record
- Typical cut
- 58% off
- Steam low
- $10.49 November 2025
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 170 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
53% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 61 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 58 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 4 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 80) beats it on value, while it beats Tin Can ($19.99, scores 50).
More about Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,088 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,064 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 10 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
100% Complete | 46h at review This is one of those games that's incredibly satisfying in its simplicity. Cutting apart ships piece by piece, salvaging what you can and slowly working your way through increasingly complex vessels. The atmosphere, characters and industrial setting are a big part of the appeal, with the whole "big corporate" environment making it easy to imagine this being set somewhere in the Alien...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Pretty solid game with a very relaxing but challenging gameplay loop. It encourages your growth as a salvager in a way that at the end of the game I felt genuinely competent at it. Story is incredibly cheesy and undercuts the tone of the game but besides it halting your gameplay a bit its perfectly ignorable if it really bothers you. I'd wait for a sale but the price is already fair enough
A great game that was obviously parasitized as a vehicle for someone's self-insert "fight the man" fanfic - and you WILL watch it. You are subjected - after almost every other shift - to unskippable, fully-voice-acted, LOOONG cutscenes. If you ever want to boot this up and just play it, expect a solid 5-ish minutes for every 15 minute shift for the first 10 levels at least.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 380, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Hardspace: Shipbreaker scores 72/100 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/1161580/hardspace-shipbreakerReviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.