Sid Meier's Starships
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews▼
- 50% of 2,476
- Critics
- 64 players 14 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 100% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.1h
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 June 2020
- Sale every
- 49d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 15 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 2% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 66 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ ($9.99, scores 9) outscores it, and so does Age of Wonders: Planetfall ($29.99, scores 56). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Sid Meier's Starships
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 64 against 50 percent.
This site sampled 367 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 22 percent of the 436 reviews written there were positive, against 50 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
This is easy to say. No. On release it was an overly simple game. Inoffensive, sure, but there was so little going on it would've been hard to recommend regardless. Further, if you've never played this, everyone else talking about the lack of replay is absolutely correct. Play one game and you've played all possible games. That's how little is going on, here. Yet...now it doesn't even boot up correctly. 2K has had...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game doesn't even feel like a pc game. Whether it was one or not it feels like a terrible pc port form a mobile game. It is missing basically all options including not having a full screen mode, or key bindings, it runs like dirt, and it looks terrible. I wish i had refunded this when i first bought it but i was hoping they would do updates to make the game more a pc game and not look and run like a mobile...
An entertaining time killer. Don't expect much though. It's a tiny game with minimal content. I play this when solitaire gets too boring.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 840 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Sid Meier's Starships scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282210/sid-meier-s-starshipsReviews 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.