Spaceport Hope

Spaceport Hope

Skip · Shooter · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 46, under the fair line, at $1.99.

Length
7.1h 9h to 100%
Value
$0.28/hr
Reviews
76% of 487 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 466 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement5% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 67 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 + 512MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 39 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 67 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 46 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre. On the same math Axiom Verge ($19.99, scores 51) and Environmental Station Alpha ($7.99, scores 60) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Spaceport Hope

Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

14% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

Cute little casual game that's good for some simple fun. The controls got in the way a bit at times, but nothing that completely ruined it for me. Overall, it was fine for what it is and I had a decent time with it.
SteveHybridRecommendedafter 27h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
"I'm not here to save anyone. I'm just here to do my job." Spaceport Hope is a retro-style 2D action platform shooter with a fair of content and challenge. Offering a hand-crafted world packed with unique bosses and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is set in a futuristic world where humans have established trade relations with an advanced alien race called the Cilarians. You play as Cole, a badass courier who takes a...
Captain TitusRecommendedafter 7.6hAug 2023Read on Steam
I'm done. Have not entirely beat it, but then, after crashing 3 out of the 4 times I went to change my controls, I dont want to. If you like 8-bit style games, you'll like this. Controls seemed good and responsive. Gamepad support was good. It was alright, what I played, but after the first crash, I remember saying to myself "I'm just done with the game really". How do you use the invetory? Is it that you have the...
TBOctavan80Not recommendedafter 3.2h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Spaceport Hope scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/394540/spaceport-hope
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

Developerteam BitClub
Publisherteam BitClub , Sunken Treasure Games
GenreShooter
Released2016
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24