Star Ruler
Fair · Strategy · 2010
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.55/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 343
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 14.5h
- To 100%
- 50h 3.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 25 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 November 2015
- Sale every
- 93d last December 2020
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 44% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
25 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 305 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, AI War: Fleet Command ($9.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Distant Worlds: Universe ($29.99, scores 29).
More about Star Ruler
Finishing takes 14.5 hours; clearing it takes 50, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2133 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
it's a fun game for what it is. it does have one drawback. it's very frustrating when your ships die immediately upon being built for no obvious reason, and it happens pretty frequently. you can spend hours trying to figure out what the problem is only to have it stop at what seems to be random. other than that it's a very fun game
2 more reviews
Better than Stellaris in that the "sky is the limit". No silly rules forcing you to be unable to do basic things unless you jump through hoops, or what those snowflake devs perceives as "tHaT wOuLd bE uNfAiR!" - at best, there's a setting to not allow attacking systems unless at war, which you can gladly turn-off and initiate pearl-harbor style attacks at will. Ya know, like as happens in reality. Don't like me...
so this entire game is 256MB that it all my play time speaks for itself i have owned this a vary long time dec29 2011 it got me into the 4x game its a must own must play even for a small game for $8 do it and to the devs thanks for a huge part of my love for gaming
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About the game
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 1024x768 minimum resolution, 256 MB memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Star Ruler scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/70900/star-rulerReviews 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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.