Starbound
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.23/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 123,358
- Critics
- 81 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 25.8h
- To 100%
- 155.5h 6.0x the story
- Finish
- 29% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 51
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 August 2022
- Sale every
- 41d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 850 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 20% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 1% rarestA 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
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in August 2022. 69 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Necesse ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Edge of Space ($14.99, scores 0).
More about Starbound
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 9 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 2,868 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 25.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 156, 6.0 times as much.
123,358 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
"IT'S LIKE TERRARIA, BUT IN SPACE!!!" No, it's really not like Terraria, and it's not just because it's set in space. I've got 1k+ hours in Terraria, and I don't wanna bore you to death with comparisons, so just take my word for it, okay? If you're looking for some chill, methodical exploration with a thick-ass atmosphere, you're gonna love this.
2 more reviews
I honestly don't get the 'abandoned' complaints. Not all games are live service games, or games that continue being updated forever. Most games get to a point where the devs have finished their design document, and have nothing left to add. This seems to be one of those. They added what they planned to, added workshop and mod ability, and that's the game done. And it's a good game. It might not have been at some...
what if terraria was worse but you could be a cute mushroom girl with a baller spaceship
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB graphics memory and directx 9.0c compatible gpu, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Starbound scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/211820/starboundReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.