Slipways
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $16.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.65.
- Length
- 9.9h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 7xx series or equivalent with 1 GB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.
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
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $6.79. 24 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $9.65 BANGER line 16 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Niche - a genetics survival game ($17.99, scores 65).
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 456 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
53% start to 24% 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
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 05:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
a nice and simple networking game that feels like a puzzle. I love that I can wind down at the end of the day with a sci fi game that takes a little less than an hour to complete with a beautiful backdrop of space.
I bought it years ago, it was not love on first sight. But I gave it another try, and it is love now nonetheless. A peaceful, calm puzzler with a fantastic sound track.
Overall I found this game to be just... fine, not much more. There's really only one core mechanic you are working towards, and it never really changes. This is an arcade-style game with 60 minute runs, but so little changes each time, it's a randomly generated map and that's largely it. I got 4 stars (and was a single month away from 5 stars) in my third run and I don't think I'll be returning, there simply doesn't...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Slipways scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1264280/slipwaysReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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