Star Fire: Eternal Cycle
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $11.04, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2025. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $1.78/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 35% off today.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Star Fire is a love letter to classic arcade side-scrollers, reimagined with roguelite progression, modern action polish, and that “just one more run” itch. It’s fast, punchy, and all about no-pressure fun with tight combat, slick movement, and endless ways to cause chaos.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $11.04. It has been discounted 9 times in the 13 months tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $11.04 at 35 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 59. With it, 65.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats 100 Christmas Cats (free, scores 59).
Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
6.2 hours to finish it, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
99% start to 42% 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
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 01:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Star Fire: Eternal Cycle scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3067890/star-fire-eternal-cycleReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 2.
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