EVERSPACE™
Fair · Roguelike · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.9h
- Value
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 480 / AMD Radeon HD 5870, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 71 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 46 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heat Signature ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats House of the Dying Sun ($19.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 2,148 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 15.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 69, 4.3 times as much.
The drop-off
75% 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
44 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
I don't know much about the game, when you get killed, you start over, which I hate those games. But everytime you jump, its not linear the same. And you get new weapons, blueprints and upgrade or craft some good ones ... The game looks good as a sci-fi spaceship game, and the story is interesting to keep going. If there is a good mysterious story, I am up to it to find out what the heck if going on XD , but RARELY...
Worth getting the on discount. If you are expecting a strong narrative, this is not your game. I was expecting something a bit different myself but it fills a good niche in my library. This is essentially a rogue-like space shooter where your goal is to survive through many levels but if you die you start over. If you want something you can play casually at your leisure for some space shooting, this fits the bill...
Score: 3/5 Flashy, but lacks substance and designed around tedium/grinding. Great art style/direction, including projectiles/explosions/combat, ship thrusters/fire. Audio/sfx/music are all great. Pacing is slow, with very little story/setting revealed within an hour of playtime. Gameplay is strongly lacking, but could hypothetically work with more polish and better pacing. The combat is about having high enough...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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EVERSPACE™ scores 51/100 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/396750/everspaceThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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