Starblast
Fair · Multiplayer · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 81% of 1,121 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
About the game
Fun, fast paced online multiplayer arcade space shooter. Take control of your spaceship, mine asteroids, increase your stats, upgrade to different types of spaceships with improved stats and weapons. Fight against other players and collect their gems.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 64 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Distant Space ($0.49, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Polygoneer ($4.99, scores 35).
More about Starblast
4 of the 451 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
74% 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
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Starblast scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/673260/starblastReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.