Lightracer Spark
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $1.80/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 1,018 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies to grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650Ti 2G, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector ($12.49, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats StarMade ($14.99, scores 15).
More about Lightracer Spark
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 461 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Lightracer Spark is a good sci-fi visual novel-style game about uplifting alien civilizations, the fate of three very different civilizations, and eventually the fate of the universe. The strongest part of the game is its storytelling. It feels almost like reading a good sci-fi book, but with decisions, consequences, and some light gameplay systems around it. If you are interested in guiding and uplifting alien...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A combination of sci-fi visual novel and grand strategy game. The graphics is stylized and good looking. Most of the time is spent on political map with icons. There is no voice, only music. The visual novel part comes during sub-quests, which are resolved by combination of decisions in dialogues and spending resources from strategic part. The strategic part is somewhat bare-bones. There is resource extraction and...
The game introduces multiple concepts / resources / yet-to-be-unlocked features and then abruptly ends 4 hours in, never having capitalized on promised features. The entire game played like a demo or a tutorial.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lightracer Spark scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2094270/lightracer-sparkReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.