Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$7.4950% off

Cost per hour
$2.68/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 4,076
Critics
80 players 13 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reach

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
5.6h
To 100%
13.2h 2.4x the story
Achievements
28

Price and sales

Sales
73 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$4.94 November 2018
Sale every
51d last June 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $4.94 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
9 now
Cheaper than
20% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

65% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 73 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 19 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, Overcooked ($16.99, scores 64) and Tools Up! ($19.99, scores 36) both come in lower.

More about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Critics scored it 80. Players sit 13 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

7 of the 435 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 698 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 13, 2.4 times as much.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Last discount ended 131 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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds7 of 435 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

This is fun cozy (and sometimes a little frantic) couch co-op style game. Works well with two people though you are running around the ship to cover all the jobs. Would generally recommend the game. My biggest issues with the game and something the developer absolutely NEEDS TO ADDRESS: - the game does not support newer widescreen formats like super ultra wide! 32x9 is not an option in the game settings. It...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 7.4hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 3.8hJul 2026Read on Steam
My absolute go-to couch co-op game. Invite some friends over, and work your way through the campaign while screaming at each other like your crewmembers in a Star Trek episode, or else put it on your living room TV during a party so people can drop in and out as they desire. I really recommend this game.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 5.8hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB VRAM, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252110/lovers-in-a-dangerous-spacetime
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+13
Critics80
Players93
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 4,076 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperAsteroid Base
PublisherAsteroid Base
GenreMultiplayer
Released2015
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28