Distant Space

Distant Space

Fair · Shooter · 2016

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.4h
Value
$2.47/hr
Reviews
82% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.47
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$0.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
82%
3,495 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Windows only.

Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$2.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 335 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.28, set in December 2022. 93 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 51 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 31 percent on value. It is cheaper than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Distant Space 2 ($0.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Cyberhunt ($4.99, scores 57).

This site sampled 335 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 215 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

13% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 11:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Distant Space scores 58/100 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/569610/distant-space
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPixelMouse
PublisherPixelMouse
GenreShooter
Released2016
Achievements44