Space Run Galaxy
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 39.7h
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in September 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Run ($4.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats StarDrive 2 ($29.99, scores 0).
Critics scored it 75, but players land 11 points lower at 64 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
39.7 hours to finish it, 89 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% start to 2% 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
19 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Space Run Galaxy is the better Space Run game then the 2014 Space Run. Space Run 2014 is just ageing like old milk. but i came back now in 2026 to play Space Run Galaxy and its just great. its one of the best Tower Defense games i played and i own more then half DM games on Steam. its a fun, relaxing most of the time.
Fantastic game - I hope someone makes more games like this :) + Fun story + Building your own ship and using blueprints is great + The balance is good (a bit too easy for me, but challenging enough for most players) + Fun spaceship tower defense gameplay + Lots of fun weapons, upgrade combinations, and things to do - If you are playing online and lose connection before finishing a run, you lose the run and have to...
This is just a worse version of the previous game, "Space Run". Core gameplay is 90% the same, all they added is tedium. In the previous game you just needed money to upgrade your stuff. In Space Run Galaxy, you are now limited to how many turret of each type you can build. You build them with money and crafting components, but these components need to be moved around from planet to planet like mission cargo. You...
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Space Run Galaxy scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/355800/space-run-galaxyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Sep 24.
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