Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Skip · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 1.6h 9h to 100%
- Value
- $7.49/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 834 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $4.79 (60% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 46 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
25 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 69 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Per Aspera ($7.49, scores 41) and Planetbase ($14.99, scores 49) both outscore it.
More about Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
11 of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 288 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 251 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.6 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 5.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
96% 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
What players say
If you want a city building game where you can't lose and every level becomes the same, then this is your game. It's a slow, ponderous, and dull builder. I could forgive the overly 'chill' nature of the game if it wasn't so buggy and likely to crash when you inevitably minimize the game to play something else while your resources tick up. Most frequent issues: Game crashes Unable to build things that require ground...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The UI in this game bugs me a lot, it feels unintitive and having every building in one horizontal menu that can only scroll left and right sucks.
It's a good game, but I expected something different to happen when we moved to the new planet.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2628570/stellar-settlers-space-base-builderReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.