Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Skip · RPG · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $1.33/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 550 GTX / AMD Radeon 5770 HD series card, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was April 2020. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 46 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats No-brainer Heroes 挂机吧！勇者 ($9.99, scores 30).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 240 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.5 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
59% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 7.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
There isn't much to say for the gameplay. It's unclear, convoluted & tedious, yet it makes perfect sense in the context of what you are in the game. However, the music & atmosphere, along with the assistance of copious amounts of drugs, makes for a really fun experience.
There's something special about this game that makes me smile even now, eight years after playing it for the first time. Your life is hard in this game, not just because you're perpetually broke and hungry. The city layout is horribly confusing, you have to watch out for cops, and it seems like everyone else in this spaceport has some grand and exciting quest that you'll never get to participate in. But it's worth...
Its a great game overall its just such a wasted potential of including gender politics in this. Im sorry but if in a sci-fi setting therers no cure for this stupid "mechanicks" of "needing" to genderswapp is totally ruins the wibe of the game. Makes you lose money constantly buying drugs like i couknt live withouth it in real life, let alone in game, and worst of all, it ads zero content arround it other than being...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor scores 32/100 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/436500/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitorReviews 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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