StarMade
Skip · RPG · 2014 · Early Access
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 68% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 42 percent off as a rule. There have been 29 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Starship EVO ($24.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Planet Explorers (free, scores 10).
This site sampled 358 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 497 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 00:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
StarMade scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/244770/starmadeReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 22.
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