ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition
Fair · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.8h
- Value
- $0.63/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB DX9 Compliant, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
May 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 75 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ENDLESS Legend™ ($7.49, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ ($39.99, scores 9).
Of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 558 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.8 hours; clearing it takes 114, which is 7.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
34% start to 2% 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
106 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Came back to play this as years back I remember rage quitting on this marvel. Guess what, after 100 turns, I did that again My biggest issue is combat as outcome is decided before it even starts. No matter what tactics you pick, 99% of the time combat ends in the same way. Similar damage output, same kill counts and losses. What did it for me is a battle where I had overwhelming advantage. 11 to just 2 of enemy...
The computer players are just bad. The game is okay overall and the music is good. Yet, the initial few turns are just dull. Your first war will either be a boring stomp as you destroy their ships without taking damage or you will be wiped out in one battle. I don't care about creating a custom race for bonuses against the AI. The AI always grows faster than you because of the discounts it recieves to account for...
If you like strategy games, this one has a lot going for it so far. I have only played on normal difficulty to date but as I go I learn more, so later I will give a another review...maybe. :)
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/208140/endless-space-definitive-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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