LONESTAR
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 91% 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 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($7.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 55% ($5.84)
- Last discount ended
- 3 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 730 OR Radeon HD 4830, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.19. 29 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 26 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Die in the Dungeon ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60).
Of the 504 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 214 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 69, 26 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
87% start to 70% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I see a lot of comparisons with Cobalt Core, which is a fine, cute, little and cozy game. Lonestar is much, much more than that, Its replayability is on par with the biggest exponents of the genre, as StS, Monster Train, etc. The amount of content and possible strategies is crazy: - 3 very distinguishible spaceships with their own gimmicks - A vast amount of units for each spaceship, all with different themes and...
i'm actually not that into roguelike card battlers anymore. but this game interprets the genre a little differently. in an addictive way that's incredibly fun.
TLDR: Raring 85 / 100 The game is a "deck builder" type. You fight one enemy ship and after each fight you get various rewards. Positives: - The game has reasonable tactical complexity. You have quite a bit of effects and synergies that you can combine. Somethimes I have to think about the best sequence of using my resources - it's not an "obvious" solution when you have to consider synergies, enemy special...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
LONESTAR scores 73/100 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/2056210/lonestarReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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