STARDROP
Fair · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.8h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 277 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.02 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
STARDROP is an interactive sci-fi cinematic experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1GB (AMD Radeon HD 7970 or Nvidia GeForce 1060), 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 76 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 29 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Call of the Sea ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Tacoma ($19.99, scores 49).
More about STARDROP
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
54% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Stardrop is a casual sci-fi game about the exploration of a ship lost long ago. It's primarily a narrative-driven walking sim with some light puzzle and stealth elements, although the stealth sections are very basic. The story is the main focus of the game. For a one dev project (with help I assume), it's pretty good. It's divided in four chapter and has very good voice-overs for the main characters. The graphics...
2 more reviews
Some jankiness (softlocks, unwanted cursors appearing on screen, awkward positioning of the character in order to activate terminals, repeated conversations, etc), but otherwise this is one of the better space-set narrative games you'll play. The shiny graphics weren't exactly to my taste, but I admire the game not just for its excellent story (it has great dialogue, and one of the most gentle yet heart-reaching...
Stardrop is a wonderful sci-fi walking sim. It's super indie, and you can tell that the ambition went slightly beyond what the budget could spring for, but it's still a pretty solid adventure. You play a salvage operator who finds an abandoned dropship where the gameplay mechanics are dutifully explained, then that leads you onto a bigger ship where you do the same thing - walk slowly around a vast space hulk...
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Cite this score
STARDROP scores 59/100 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/552880/stardropReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.