Star Saviors
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $0.90/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS or Intel HD 3000, 553 MB of storage. Windows only.
Saviors brings the best bullet hell experience you can find on Steam. Play through 18 challenging stages in this ultimate test of tactics and reflexes.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.19. That was July 2015. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 12 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Jets'n'Guns Gold ($7.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Distant Space ($0.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 654 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.2 hours. Doing everything runs 30, 14 times as long.
The drop-off
13% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 2.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
Some levels can only be beaten through luck, but it's still not a bad example of the genre.
Super cheap vertical shoot 'em up, but not cheap in terms of quality and content. Ugly 3d talking heads during mission briefings, but the text compensated by being interesting. The game was much prettier than it seemed at first glance. I loved the design of the enemy ships. The music was very good; it even had a chorus for boss battles. I liked the choice of perks, but I had trouble distinguishing the power...
It appears to be not that bad. Plenty of weapons and side weapons to unlock after getting through new missions. Getting enough points during missions sum up and power up main weapon. A few side weapons like rockets, bombs and homing missiles which are limited to specific number during each level. Ship can be upgraded in a few categories like damage, fire rate, shield regen and such. Overall gameplay is ok, there's...
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Cite this score
Star Saviors scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/314450/star-saviorsReviews 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 21, price as of Oct 1.
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