Dust Fleet
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 13h 44h to 100%
- Value
- $0.54/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 233 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB, DirectX9, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
32 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 55 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $6.99 at 65 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, AI War 2 ($4.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Industries of Titan ($29.99, scores 8).
More about Dust Fleet
Finishing takes 13 hours; clearing it takes 44, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
57% start to 3% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 03:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Given that this game has come from a single developer, for what it is, its great. Has some good ideas and I wish games like Sins of a Solar Empire and Homeworld 3 had done something like them as well. Its genuinely a fun game to play. Had a few game breaking bugs, but it autosaves frequently, so loss of time and effort is minimal. It is also a little short in campaign time, but the essential skirmish mode is great...
2 more reviews
on my third day playing this game i realized something. Why aren't i using the "build ships and call them in during the mission" button. I don't need death stacks. I CAN SUMMON THE DEATH WAVES!
Like a slightly modernised version of a 2000's space RTS. I found the campaign a bit difficult, partly because I'm not a very good player, but also because there isn't a lot of handholding to show you the most effective strategies, particularly on the 4X map. For example, if you're not maintaining a strong border fleet, and just chasing the "Missions", you will come undone. If you haven't got lots of historic saves...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dust Fleet scores 44/100 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/406160/dust-fleetReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.