Starcom: Unknown Space
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $24.17.
- Length
- 28h
- Value
- $0.89/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($17.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Last discount ended
- 29 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 2 GB Direct3D 11 Capable video card or better (see additional notes), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
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
The lowest price on record is $12.49, set in March 2026. 28 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago. Past sales have already crossed the $24.17 BANGER line 21 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Starcom: Nexus ($19.99, scores 74) and 3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey ($14.99, scores 57).
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. 14 of the 641 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
95% 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
23 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 03:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Having grown up playing the StarFlight and Star Control franchises, I loved getting back into this style of game. The story is compelling, the gameplay is tight, controls are intuitive, and yet you have just the right amount of starship automation freedom to play the game exactly the way you want from fully manual to fully automated. While it is an "Open World", almost every thing and every choice helps push the...
I really enjoyed the game mechanics of Starcom and the combat system from being able to target certain systems, to allowing things to auto target, to using some forms of kiting or strategy when engaging with multiple enemies. From an RPG perspective, this is one of those games where you should not skip the dialogue and should read things. You need to actively the game logs to be able to find things, which at times...
A fun space game. Immersive, well written. The combat system isn't infinitely complex, but it has enough depth to entertain any upgrade-hungry player over the roughly 20-30h campaign. Can recommend.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Starcom: Unknown Space scores 84/100 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/1750770/starcom-unknown-spaceReviews 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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