ASTRONEER
Worth it · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$8.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hourA
- $1.12/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 139,965
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Narrative
Holding it back: Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 26.7h
- To 100%
- 71h 2.7x the story
- Achievements
- 56
Price and sales
- Sales
- 67 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $7.49 March 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,281 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 67 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Starbound ($5.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats TerraTech Worlds ($29.99, scores 10).
More about ASTRONEER
24 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 6,209 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
26.7 hours to finish it, 71 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
139,965 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game COULD be fun, but the controls are absolutely terrible. Pick any other game, the controls will be better. I really tried hard to like this game, over multiple attempts in multiple years. I like almost every game like it - but everything this game does well is irrelevant because you will hate the controls THE ENTIRE TIME. It never gets better. Get yourself a different game, trust me.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game overstays its welcome, doesn't teach nearly a thing, gives you DLC stuff without the DLC to try to hook you in, has UX issues and several small QoL issues to add up over time. The game is long and gets grindy with time - particularly with megastructures: they require lots of materials and trains are weird and automation is clunky. Your main method of moving around the early and mid game is a buggy and the...
From the start of the game, i really enjoyed this game. Gathering resources, exploring the unknown planet, finding secrets and lores, and building up base. Looks like it was gonna be cozy experience, and it is, especially on the starting planet. But then came the story, where everything that looks like a fun and enjoyable experience, turns into a thrilling, challenging, and brutal adventure. I eventually had a long...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Discrete Non Mobile GPU with 1 GB Ram, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ASTRONEER scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/361420/astroneerReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.