Race for the Galaxy
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$7.99Skip
On its price record
$4.90Fair
- Length
- 0.4h
- Value
- $19.97/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 454 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.90 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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.
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
About the game
Explore, Settle, Develop, Trade, Consume, or Produce? Which do you need most? Which of Earth's former colonies will be most successful at settling the galaxy, now that JumpDrive exists? Who will discover the secrets of the mysteriously vanished Alien Overlords? Your goal: to build the most prosperous and powerful space empire!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Dune: Imperium ($22.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Star Realms (free, scores 67). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Race for the Galaxy
Of the 294 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 12 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's wild that I can blast through this game in ten minutes against a bot without all the shuffling of a physical deck and counting VPs at the end.
2 more reviews
A little over a year ago, I discovered Dominion, and fell in love. I wanted a Sci-Fi themed deck/engine builder, and I looked at Race over and over and over. Oh how I wish I pulled the trigger sooner! Only a little bit in, but it's easy to step into, and I am having a blast. While the learning curve isn't too steep, I can already see quite a bit of depth waiting to be explored. Highly recommend! It's inexpensive...
Good card game with very confusing design. It starts to make fun as soon as you encoded the cryptic UI and symbology.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Race for the Galaxy scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/579940/race-for-the-galaxyReviews 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.