Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 60h
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 10 GB of memory, AMD RX 550 / NVIDIA GTX 1050 (min. 2 GB VRAM), 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 77 in the 11 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Space Engineers ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Planet Explorers (free, scores 10).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 2,327 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 6 years ago and 990 were still playing it at once, as of Sep 13.
The drop-off
2% 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
About 990 players at once, as of Sep 13.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is No Man's Sky where you build your ships from the ground up instead of buy them, and it is a lot more combat oriented. The music is also grand. Excellent sci fi gritty exploration universe, and a little bit of horror.
Perfect game to feel like you crasher real-life. You're scared of everything and when you achieve your spaceship, you can explore endless galaxy. Best Star Citizen-like game. I recommend to play it only in multiplayer, because after you achieve spaceship in singleplayer, you'll get bored, but such problem doesn't exist in multiplayer.
this is by far one of the worst entries in both genres of sandbox and build'em'up that i can think of. eleven years of this game being basically un-patched early access trash clogging up libraries. my friends grabbed a couple copies for what we thought was cheap enough to warrant even a passing interest in the game only to be greeted with the singular worst experience i have ever had playing a game in any of its...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Empyrion - Galactic Survival scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/383120/empyrion-galactic-survivalReviews 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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