Shooting Stars!
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$4.99Skip
On its price record
$2.76Fair
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $7.13/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 14 and Oct 27, at about $0.79 (84% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 52 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 85% ($0.74)
- Last discount ended
- 18 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS, AMD Radeon HD 4290 or newer, 123 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
This game is the answer to one of the most important questions in life: “I can haz lazer kitty?“ Yes you can!
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
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. It has been discounted 103 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Distant Space 2 ($0.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition ($4.99, scores 42).
Critics scored it 59. Players sit 22 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.7 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 11 times the campaign.
The drop-off
26% start to 4% 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
What players say
If you like vertical shootem ups... not bad for under a buck and has trading cards so that gets you what? A dime on the steam market? Not bad at all. Not that great either though but if you got steam wallet change to burn through... this will do the trick.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Shooting Stars! scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/415350/shooting-starsReviews 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 1.
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