StarVaders
BANGER · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $11.36/hr
- Reviews
- 97% 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
- 25% ($18.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($17.49)
- Last discount ended
- 49 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 4GB Video Memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $17.49. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 13 in the 17 months tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, LONESTAR ($12.99, scores 73) and Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) both come in lower.
85 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 403 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 311 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 67, 31 times as much.
At 2.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
96% start to 20% 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
Players
31 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 09:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great game mechanics, endearing artstyle and soundtrack. Could use more variety on bosses. The synergies are satisfying, but very evident once you see the character abilities and deck. Was hoping to find new ones the more I played. It has great replay value, and optimal length of runs for people with less time on their hands. This is the closest I have felt to playing Into The Breach, which is saying a lot. 4.5 stars
i bow to the studio, letting you skip meta progression if you dont like it, hiding the true hardest modes behind "challenges", and of course making a wonderful game that forces you to think and be engaged to win, and of course amazing hype moments and aura farming potential in the combo system, also the characters and enemies look amazing.
This game has the best UI and QoL I ever saw in a deckbuilder game. All information you are intended to be able to access is easily accessible. Devs have my deepest respect for understanding what the player wants to (and should) have at their immedeate disposal. Gameplay-wise it's very tight and full of significant choices. Battles allow for a lot of control and min-maxization. Classes are drastically different from...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
StarVaders scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2097570/starvadersReviews 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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