Stardeus
Skip · RPG · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 capable GPUs with Compute Shader support, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. 30 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Haven ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Starmancer ($14.99, scores 6).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. 5 of the 481 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
52% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
31 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Stardeus scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 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/1380910/stardeusReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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