Star Ruler 2
Fair · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 32h
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.24, set in August 2016. It has been discounted 23 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, AI War: Fleet Command ($9.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats StarDrive ($29.99, scores 0).
The drop-off
65% 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
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)
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...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Star Ruler 2 scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282590/star-ruler-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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