PULSAR: Lost Colony
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9950% off
- Cost per hour
- $1.09/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 5,740
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 18.4h
- To 100%
- 74.6h 4.1x the story
- Finish
- 16% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 41
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 November 2025
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 25 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
22% start to <1% rarestA 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
63 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, Stars End ($19.99, scores 7) and StarMade ($14.99, scores 15), are both worse buys on this math.
More about PULSAR: Lost Colony
This site sampled 560 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 255 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 294 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 18.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 75, 4.1 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
Great game, I can recommend it to any Star Trek or Orville fan, as well as former Freelancer players; right now there is no game that comes close to this, and I could easily imagine expansions for it.
2 more reviews
Pulsar is an amazingly fun game. Can't really recommend the VR version atm as it has serious bugs (especially visual ones, like putting on the exosuit causing it to appear in front of you), but the base game is plenty fun. More fun with friends. Also has great mods on their discord server.
I love this game but it is lacking in content. there is a ton of mechanical depth in the systems of the ship that makes spacefaring feel daunting and interesting. it has a lot of different ships with different rolls. it falls short in out of ship gameplay. This game has a key component to make the best space ship sim game with its ship mechanics but its not quite there with the rest if its game play, I however...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 5000 (Shader Model 3), 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PULSAR: Lost Colony scores 75/100 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/252870/pulsar-lost-colonyReviews 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 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.