Avorion
BANGER · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 56.8h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.49, set in June 2026. 38 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kerbal Space Program ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats X4: Foundations ($49.99, scores 60).
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 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 398 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.
It came out 6 years ago and 618 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
58% start to 43% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
618 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's one of my few all-time favourite games in the genre. I've been playing it off and on since its release back in 2020.
This game is solid. If you want a complex yet rewarding experience with playing your own solo campaign, give it a try. The tutorial is great, and not too lengthy - and you get walked through setting up your first ship so it's not daunting. Don't skip the tutorial, I do highly advise that much. Especially if you're brand brand new and trying something new. I almost ruined the game for myself that way. With all the...
I have enjoyed this game thus far and find no reason for this view to change. Avorion is a game full of Sandbox fun, truly it is a sandbox, with a great progressive storyline. The game has been upgraded many times since its coming to be. i believe the staff is strong willed and full of light that they may share with all of us. I Pray more would join in the fun that is Avorion. be not worried to play with...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Avorion scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/445220/avorionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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