StarDrive
Skip · Strategy · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.58/hr
- Reviews▼
- 45% of 1,486
- Critics
- 61 players 16 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 100% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 19h
Price and sales
- Sales
- 70 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 December 2023
- Sale every
- 39d last December 2023
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 70 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 152 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. AI War: Fleet Command ($9.99, scores 63) outscores it, and so does Distant Worlds: Universe ($29.99, scores 29). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about StarDrive
Critics scored it 61, but players land 16 points lower at 45 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 23 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 45 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 1066 days ago.
- 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
The base game itself was abandoned by dev and also lots of bugs and crashes. Then came the team doing the Blackbox mod and they did an amazing job to take the game further....BUT.... They made the game impossible to play because even on NORMAL difficulty its like playing a very hard level. The AI clearly cheats and just steam rolls you. You cannot stand against 1 AI nevermind 2 or more. I have no idea why they...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A shame the game was abandoned after receiving money from so many players. Guess we know which developer to avoid in the future.
I got this game a very long time ago, and really liked the game mechanics, but the technical issues due to the game engine made it unplayable late game until 2 weeks ago. The recent Jupiter update of the Black Box mod swapped the entire engine and brought it to the modern age with a 64bit engine. This solved almost all the performance and crashes that the game had. The content added by the Combined Arms Mod really...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon X1900, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
StarDrive scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220660/stardriveReviews 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.