Star Renegades
Fair · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $2.31/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750(2GB VRAM) / AMD Radeon Pro 460 (2GB VRAM), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
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
The value story
April 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.24. 63 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 43 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Last Spell ($24.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Metal Slug Tactics ($24.99, scores 43).
12 of the 767 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 199 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 54, 5.0 times as much.
At 10.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
82% start to <1% rarestNo 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
22 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game has a combination of mechanics. A rivalry mechanic reminiscent of Shadow of Mordor. A recruiting mechanic and art style reminiscent of Into the Breach. While I do enjoy the art style, I am starting to get sick and tired of pixel art. The roguelike elements that's infested gaming since Slay the Spire. Somewhat modern JRPG mechanics that has moved away from the Pokemon style battles. The battles can feel...
An enjoyable turn-based roguelike in the vein of Darkest Dungeon. + Perfect information - no RNG + Intuitive turn-based combat system based on denying the enemy turns, a la Metaphor: Re Fantazio or the Fuga: Melodies of Steel series + Affinity system that gives you cutscenes between party members and rewards you with alternate appearances and movesets - Runs take a very long time (2 hours +) and the incremental...
The art is good. I can see how the gameplay could be fun for some, but it didn't really strike a chord with me. It's more meant to be neutral since I got only like 5 hours in so I can't judge it for the whole game but since Steam forces you to pick one and I abandoned it, there you go.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Star Renegades scores 57/100 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/651670/star-renegadesReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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