Avorion

Avorion

BANGER · Action · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER at $12.49. Typically $9.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hourS
$0.22/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 14,615
Genre rank
Top 1% Action
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.

Time and effort

Main story
56.8h
To 100%
344.6h 6.1x the story
Finish
43% reach the ending
Achievements
68

Price and sales

Sales
40 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$8.49 June 2026
Sale every
84d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $8.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
617 now
Cheaper than
4% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

58% start to 43% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

The lowest price on record is $8.49, set in June 2026. 40 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart.

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games closest to it, X4: Foundations ($9.99, scores 51) and Interstellar Rift ($19.99, scores 19) both come in lower.

More about Avorion

Steam's global achievement data puts 43 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 401 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 56.8 hours; clearing it takes 345, which is 6.1 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.22/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $0.44/hr
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~341h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 57h main story
Engagement43% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
For context
Refunds18 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Very glad I rolled the dice and bought this game (I normally hate buying games that don't include a demo to give me a chance to see if I'll like it first). The $8.50 price point made it low enough that I could try something in a genre I knew I'd probably like. Cons: The early stages of the game feel an awful lot like "mine this rock 400 times" - but that is probably just my playstyle, being more risk averse and...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 5.5h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Kind of like lego starships but still somehow incredibly boring. Did not enjoy it.
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 4.6h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce 550 or equivalent (full OpenGL 3.0 support required), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Avorion scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/445220/avorion
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Reviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperBoxelware
PublisherBoxelware
GenreAction
Released2020
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements68