Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Fair · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.9h 6.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.04/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 454 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 205 MB of memory, Everything made since 2004 should work., 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
38 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, No Man's Sky ($59.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Astrox Imperium ($14.99, scores 43).
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 12:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
WOW! I just bought the bundle of ASTROX and how in the heck I missed these games ! I've been looking for something like this for the last 10 yrs. These games are a hidden jewel or better said, Masterpieces! They are the perfect version of EVE but offline. I'm having a blast with Hostile Space Excavation, What a game! can't believe that just one guy made them, KUDOS to him. Is sad to see that the developer decided to...
2 more reviews
This is a great little game. If you've ever played Eve Online this is like a pared down single player off-line version of that. It's a small download and works well.
Eve Lite/Solo, without the annoying PVPers killing the fun it is a fun relaxing game.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/414720/astrox-hostile-space-excavationReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.