Redshirt
Skip · RPG · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 6h 37.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 42% of 401 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Redshirt is the comedy sci-fi sim about social networking aboard a space station, starring the station's most ambitious low-ranking peon: you! Navigate the professional and interpersonal politics of the ubiquitous "Spacebook" to curry favor among friends and colleagues.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
63 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Quadrober Simulator ($2.99, scores 38) and Reigns ($2.99, scores 76) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Redshirt
62 on Metacritic, 42 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
6 hours to finish it, 38 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Red shirt is a game where you are a red shirt (a low level disposable employee) in a star trek like setting. Your goal is to try and successfully leave the station before the last day when the station will blow up. There are many ways of doing this: buying a ticket off the station, seducing a visiting abasador or getting a job from them, moving up the corporate ladder and making it to the top, etc. The game is...
2 more reviews
If you played, and enjoyed Kudos 2, and like Star Trek as well. Then this is one you need to play!
It makes me sad to see this game has a "Mixed" review score as to me it is the prototypical example of the kind of game that should be "mostly positive;" you can absolutely find substantial things to dislike about the game, but in my opinion at least some of those things are so deliberately designed and part of the brilliant satire of the whole thing that they are not negatives in the traditional sense. I will not...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Redshirt scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247870/redshirtReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.