Starship Theory
Skip · Strategy · 2026
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 50% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 640 or equivalent, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
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
It is less well reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. On the same math Space Haven ($24.99, scores 71) and RimWorld ($34.99, scores 97) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 20 percent of the 113 reviews written there were positive, against 50 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It is still busy. 2 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Starship Theory scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/574760/starship-theoryThe 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 Aug 2.
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