Star Traders: Frontiers
Fair · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 27h
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 or higher, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
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
March 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 79 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 42 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, RimWorld ($34.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Stardeus ($29.99, scores 43).
Of the 685 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 256 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 27 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 105, 3.9 times as much.
The drop-off
20% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 20:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I have owned and played Star Traders for so many years now. I return to it every few months; it's just such a good game. I appreciate the countless updates over the many years since its release. Top 5 Steam games for me, worth the cost of admission.
Played this game for more than 1000 hours (more than half on mobile) and I still have things to try. This is a loved game that still gets significant updates long after release. Chapeaux Trese Brothers !
Game is horribly complicated with terrible UI and no tutorial what so ever. when i say horribly complicated i mean the hoops you have to jump through just to get a mission, figure out what it actually means and and then navigate to it. are insane. nothing is straightforward or explained. which is fine for games not as complicated as this but alas. cool concept beyond inept execution. i would never give this team a...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Star Traders: Frontiers scores 58/100 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/335620/star-traders-frontiersReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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