Space Run
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $0.74 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 2,156
- Critics
- 73 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 13h
- To 100%
- 35.7h 2.7x the story
- Finish
- 78% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 92 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 September 2024
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to 78% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
92 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Particle Fleet: Emergence ($14.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Taur ($24.99, scores 40).
More about Space Run
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 12 points higher at 85 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 78 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 326 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 175 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13 hours; clearing it takes 36, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 14 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
Definitely needs a pause & command button. Also I would like to build my ship from scratch to the end but every scenario gives you a fix ship layout, it is like a puzzle game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'd probably give this a thumbs-up if you had the ability to give orders while paused.
Your ship is a handful of hex slots and you're constantly trading away engine speed for another laser turret, then rebuilding half of it while asteroids chew through your cargo. There's no pause button, so by the last chapters I was mashing hotkeys to fire off rapid fire on one side while the shield died on the other, which is either your idea of fun or exactly what you should avoid. My real gripe is that the waves...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Space Run scores 72/100 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/275670/space-runReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.