The Last Starship
Skip · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Buy now or wait
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Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: Geforce or Radeon, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
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. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was May 2025. It has been discounted 20 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales. Today's $11.99 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 45 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dyson Sphere Program ($19.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Starmancer ($14.99, scores 6).
17 of the 699 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
41% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
45 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Last Starship scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1857080/the-last-starshipReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, 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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