Human-powered spacecraft
BANGER · Short indie · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 1.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 911 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
A nostalgia-infused pixel clicker in a comedy wrapper.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Latest graphics drivers, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 96 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Digseum ($2.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Plantera ($2.99, scores 78).
More about Human-powered spacecraft
3 of the 324 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 727 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 86 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% start to 64% 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
What players say
I had a good time with this game and it's exactly what it advertises itself as: a short clicker game. I really liked the pixel art style. The humor and writing gave me strong Space Quest-era vibes. I ended up using an auto-clicker, and personally I don't feel like it took anything away from the experience. The only issue I ran into was some dialogue glitches during my second playthrough. Even after restarting the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Human-powered spacecraft scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/699180/human-powered-spacecraftReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.