Star Wolves
Fair · RPG · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 28.8h 42.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 466 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 128MB or ATI Radeon 9800 128MB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 72 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Shadow Empire ($39.99, scores 34) and Halfway ($12.99, scores 33).
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 02:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Star Wolves is an excellent game that, despite being more than 20 years old, still looks good and plays great. I've completed it several times, and every time it pulls me in with its simplicity and, at the same time, surprisingly deep tactical gameplay. I really like that this installment doesn't have a huge open world - the whole campaign is a straightforward sequence of missions with a bit of variation. You just...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Ran well on Linux without any tinkering. I didn't notice any issues other than a few times where the Mothership wouldn't attack, but I couldn't be sure what the cause of it was - was it something with the game or because it was Linux? The story was... fine? It mostly just seemed to be there. It was mostly just starting with Pirates and then it morphed to the "big guns" such as the Corporations, Empire, and a third...
First published in 2004. A cheap knockoff of the "Homeworld" franchise. Extremely dated by today's standards. It's not even worth $1 in a sale, because you can get the entire "Homeworld Remastered Collection" for $4 in a 90% off sale.
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Cite this score
Star Wolves scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/46270/star-wolvesReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.