Dyson Sphere Program
BANGER · Strategy · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99. Typically $15.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.30/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 92,135
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 67.5h
- To 100%
- 232h 3.4x the story
- Finish
- 11% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 128
Price and sales
- Sales
- 44 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $15.99 January 2022
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3,905 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
62% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 44 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. The nearest things to it, InfraSpace ($24.99, scores 56) and Planetbase ($14.99, scores 49), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Dyson Sphere Program
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 67.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,237 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 2,781 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
67.5 hours to finish it, 232 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
I am a big fan of games that are in the same category as Satisfactory along with other games of the like, and this game scratches that itch perfectly while also playing into a big fascination that I have with space. If you are a fan of having to setup automation that can take up hours and hours just to get tiny bits of progress that slowly build into huge accomplishments along with that feeling of accomplishment...
2 more reviews
An amazing factory game in the style of Factorio, but with the complexities and opportunities arising from a polar coordinate system. The physical separation between worlds and being able to build a factory on one planet and efficiently process material from another one brings home the value of long-distance logistics in a way I never got from Factorio. After playing Dyson Sphere Program you will never again wonder...
This is a fantastic game, and carves out a unique place in my top-3 of logistics games. For me, that's Factorio, Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Program. Factorio is the first, and I think it does the core logistics and tower defense portions the best. Satisfactory doesn't feature tower defense, and the Dyson Sphere tower defense is initially fun but eventually becomes pretty routine, so I had the most fun in Factorio...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card, GTX 750 Ti 2GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dyson Sphere Program scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1366540/dyson-sphere-programReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.