Starpoint Gemini 2
Skip · RPG · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $34.99.
- Length
- 33h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compliant graphics card with 512MB RAM, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.49, set in December 2023. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 131 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Starpoint Gemini Warlords ($34.99, scores 33) beats it on value, while it beats StarMade ($14.99, scores 15).
Steam's global achievement data says about 13 percent of players ever finish it. On a 33-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 246 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 458 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
31% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is simple and fun. get your ship and grow from a minnow to a shark. it's good fun, and the workshop/community has some great mods that can enhance the experience.
the story doesn't really grip you until about 3 hrs in, but it's really well done, voice acting is laughable, the controls flat out suck, it's a bit of a grind fly to location fight, rinse and repeat. The story takes awhile to get rolling but when it does, it's the best part of this game. Getting this game on sale is your best option if you ask me. Some may like it others may not, but I give it a thumbs up for the...
i really like this one ! I first got it on xbox one and put hundreds of hours into it and its even better on pc.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Starpoint Gemini 2 scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236150/starpoint-gemini-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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