Starsand
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews▼
- 65% of 1,277
- Genre rank
- Top 89% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- To 100%
- 57.6h
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 14% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
60% start to 2% 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
45 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. Arid (free, scores 66) outscores it, and so does Forever Skies ($29.99, scores 47). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Starsand
This site sampled 546 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 137 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 17 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
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 17 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
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent AMD, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Starsand scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1380220/starsandReviews 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 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.