Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
Skip · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $14.99. Price from Oct 20.
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 1,321
- Critics
- 71 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 24% RPG
Holding it back: Length unknown, Cost per hour, est. length
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Time and effort
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 69
Price and sales
- Sales
- 34 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2020
- Sale every
- 51d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
June 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 34 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Star Renegades ($24.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Starpoint Gemini Warlords ($34.99, scores 33).
More about Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
71 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
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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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128MB, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/371200/halcyon-6-starbase-commanderReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 20, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.