Deep Space Cache
Worth it · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.69.
- Length
- 2.6h 3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.27/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 896 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Deep Space Cache is a short & simple semi-idle bullet heaven incremental asteroid miner game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 31 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.69 at 30 percent off still sits 17 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nodebuster ($2.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Super Sanctum TD ($4.99, scores 74).
More about Deep Space Cache
Steam's global achievement data puts 70 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 380 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 16:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game starts alright at first but after a while the cost of upgrades scales way too high, to the point where its better to idle than actually play the game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Finished the game in about 2 to 3 hours. Unfortunately, I can't say I had much fun with it. The pacing feels off, and like others have mentioned, it eventually starts to feel more like a chore than a game. I mainly wanted to finish it for the achievement, but by the end I had YouTube videos playing on my second monitor just to get through it. The final stretch was a real slog. The biggest issue for me is that the...
For 1 eur, it was a fun 90 mins. A bit grindy at the end, a bit afking helps. overall great lil game, 7.5/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Deep Space Cache scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3226750/deep-space-cacheReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.