STAR WARS™ Starfighter™
Skip · Action · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 4.2h 8.4h to 100%
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 718 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 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
Join three heroic starfighter pilots in harrowing deep space and planetary missions to save the planet of Naboo. Rookie Naboo pilot Rhys Dallows, mercenary Vana Sage and alien pirate Nym form an unlikely alliance as they join together against an unexpected assault on the peaceful planet.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 16 MB DirectX 8 compatible PCI or AGP video card, 625 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 55 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. STAR WARS™: Rogue Squadron 3D ($9.99, scores 33) and X3: Terran Conflict ($15.99, scores 72) both outscore it.
More about STAR WARS™ Starfighter™
Critics scored it 71, but players land 16 points lower at 55 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 280 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
4.2 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 04:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is garbage, which is unfortunate, because it is purely from some horrendous bad design decisions and some numbers that if adjusted would have made this game so much better. Every time you get shot, your ships "shakes" way too much and becomes uncontrollable, which is beyond frustrating. Enemies will randomly become 100% accurate and you die because you become "stun locked". The game is not "hard" so much...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
THE SHAKING! OH GOD THE SHAKING! Be prepared to hear "Lead the Rhys, and stay close. I can't see a thing!" over and over and over and over again. Most mediocre $1.25 I spent. If the shaking wasn't as bad it would be a decent game, but alas the nostalgia got to me this time.
I remember playing this game as released on the good ol Xbox Prime back in the day and played it again recently because I wanted to experience it again now that I wasn't a terrible little toss who was bad at games. Gotta say, it's a little clarifying to be able to distinguish my own lack of skill from a game that's just not very good. It has a lot working in its favor structurally, with interesting and varied...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
STAR WARS™ Starfighter™ scores 1/100 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/32350/star-wars-starfighterReviews 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.