Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Fair · Strategy · 2007
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Windows only.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was December 2021. 94 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Homeworld Remastered Collection ($34.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Maia ($24.99, scores 0).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 86 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
None of the 352 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 158 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 18:52 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6420/nexus-the-jupiter-incidentReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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