Particle Fleet: Emergence
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.53.
- Length
- 9.8h
- Value
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
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
December 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 47 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.53. The record reaches that level 40 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal ($14.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Battlevoid: Harbinger ($9.99, scores 49).
Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 347 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
94% start to 42% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
43 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Particle Fleet: Emergence scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/422900/particle-fleet-emergenceReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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