Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 500 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256MB Video RAM, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
71 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 39 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Old World ($3.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Millennia ($13.99, scores 16).
More about Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager
62 from critics against 77 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
74% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 10:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very much a puzzle game. Always think about how one part helps with another! Don't try to skip too big a gap in rockets/equipment. Big Gemini FTW!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Im enjoying this game even thou I'm not so good at management games. My play through has reached the year 1980 and i haven't even landed on the moon yet also apparently Richard Nixon is still the president! now comes my complaints - the tutorial could be better and the text is more of a horizontal format than vertical making reading it tiresome. - the UI isn't very intuitive and has taken me about 1 hour to get a...
I find generally, that even on 'easy' I will have four rocket launches rated at 80%+ safety blow up in a row, destroying my prestige (and thus budget) and killing most of my cosmonauts. Also when I get to launching manned rockets I usually only have the budget for half the mission controllers that I need. I feel that to successfully play this game I need to take down all of the rocket and vehicle specs, including...
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Cite this score
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/308270/buzz-aldrin-s-space-program-managerReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.