Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Most players never reach the end. On a 13.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedSKIP IT.
Skip it at $19.99. The value isn't there.
about 13.8h$19.99 (~)
Better value than 51% of Shooter games
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Star Control®: Origins scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/271260/star-control-origins<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/271260/star-control-origins"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/271260" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/271260/star-control-origins)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 3h ago.
Peak 7Low 7Latest 7
Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Low $5.99High $19.99Now $19.99
PricePrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in October 2024. It has been discounted 73 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes ($4.99, scores 40) beats it on value, while it beats Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation ($29.99, scores 24).
Steam's global achievement data says about under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 13.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).