Stationeers
Fair · Multiplayer · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $34.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 138.3h
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 80% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2 GB or AMD equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
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 $17.49. It has been discounted 37 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Timberborn ($34.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Eden Crafters ($19.99, scores 61).
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 80 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 700 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 242 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 504 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
26% start to 1% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
460 hours in this game. Granted there's a lot of idle hours (while paused because if not you die!). This is by far the most challenging game I've played. I love learning the science and figuring out ways to automate by MIPS programming. In the current playthrough in Aug/Sept 2026 I think I've spent a 150 hours designing automated proper gas storage... It's ridiculous and very rewarding. I'm looking forward to future...
the very air of my habitation unit burnt at 1000C after i accidentally let methane ice sublimate into the air shortly before lighting my arc furnace. 10/10 - would self incinerate again
I'm not going to write a general review, that's been done by many already. I'll just share a short story. I had my base all set up on Mars, Massive workshop with plenty of storage. Rudimentary hydroponics (enough to feed little old me). Full refinery with Oxygen/Hydrogen/Fuel tanks etc. Full automated solar power system with IC10 chip control. My spaceship was set up and mining whatever I needed. And of course an...
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Cite this score
Stationeers scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/544550/stationeersReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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