StarDrive 2
Skip · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 55% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB nVidia Geforce GT460 or equivalent, 500 MB ATI HD4850 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.
What drives the score
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.24. That was February 2021. 57 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. On the same math Slipways ($16.99, scores 75) and Tharsis ($14.99, scores 27) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 70, but players land 15 points lower at 55 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
This site sampled 307 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to <1% 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
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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StarDrive 2 scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252450/stardrive-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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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