Space Rangers HD: A War Apart

Space Rangers HD: A War Apart

BANGER · RPG · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$2.2485% offBANGER

Cost per hourS
$0.48/hr
ReviewsS
94% of 7,325
Critics
68 players 26 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG
6% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 31.3-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.24 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
31.3h
To 100%
163.2h 5.2x the story
Finish
6% reach the ending
Achievements
82

Price and sales

Sales
80 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.24 January 2024
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.94 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.62 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
103 now
Cheaper than
22% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

23% start to 6% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

80 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Space Pirates And Zombies 2 ($19.99, scores 51) and Elite Dangerous ($19.99, scores 45), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Space Rangers HD: A War Apart

The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 26-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 31.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 475 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 384 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

31.3 hours to finish it, 163 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.2 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~163h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 31h main story
Engagement6% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
DRMThird-party DRM
Third-party copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds3 of 475 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I think I played this game on CD even before I created my steam account, and I like this game. So, I don't know why, but throw time I sometimes back to this game and play with previous enjoy.
lancelotRecommendedafter 68hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Had this game on CD since ~2005. What an amazing experience, to this day. Graphics, gameplay, jokes, everything aged very well. Still is very enjoyable for new gamers and veterans in 2026! And modding community is alive and well!
NECRODANCERRecommendedafter 81hAug 2026Read on Steam
one of my childhood favorites. this HD version includes several additions that improve upon the original release, and despite its age, it's still very playable on modern computers my main concern is the screen resolution. the game was initially designed with resolutions up to 1080p in mind, and while 1440p is supported, it can occasionally cause minor visual glitches in certain screens such as quests or uninhabited...
FoxiRecommendedafter 28hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Space adventure, open world RPG, strategy, arcade, quest and more!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 7800 GT 512 Mb / Radeon 1800 Pro 512 Mb or similar, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Space Rangers HD: A War Apart scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214730/space-rangers-hd-a-war-apart
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+26
Critics68
Players94
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 7,325 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperSNK Games
PublisherFulqrum Publishing
GenreRPG
Released2013
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements82