Star Ruler 2
Fair · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 719
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
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Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 32h
- Achievements
- 23
Price and sales
- Sales
- 23 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $6.24 August 2016
- Sale every
- 73d last December 2020
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
65% 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
It has been discounted 23 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 305 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, AI War: Fleet Command ($9.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Hades' Star (free, scores 33).
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2133 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
Total mess that made the studio bankrupt. Get Star Ruler 1 with Galactic armoury mod. (Latest version has more bugs, then older version of the mod, so might want to use a older mod version of GA if you like me have a 100% lockup rate with the latest version)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Maybe I'm just not good at this game but no matter what I do the AI is always head of me when it comes to fleet strength and I cannot keep up no matter what I do. As a result every game of this I've played has ended in stagnation. I really wanted to like this game because it has really fun diplomacy and the supply chain system is interesting, but AI that's impossible to go up against is a huge negative for me in any...
I played the game only for a little while. I did like the innovative side, however I didn't feel like spending too much time in it. I found the ship building strange (not necessarily bad). The idea of stacking planets is nice. But I find it tedious for now. Perhaps it's a different time from when the game came out. The UI feels clunky but I believe i could get used to it. Combat was very uninformative. Ships...
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About the game
Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, AMD or Nvidia Graphics card w/ 512MB RAM, OpenGL 2.1 Support, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Star Ruler 2 scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282590/star-ruler-2Reviews 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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.