Distant Space 2

Distant Space 2

Fair · Shooter · 2017

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.8h
Value
$1.24/hr
Reviews
81% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.24
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$0.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
81%
1,638 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Windows only.

Distant Space 2 - is an indirect continuation of the first part, in which you will find more dynamic gameplay. Your task is to destroy enemy ships on each level to go to the next of 26 available. In addition to conventional ships, you will have to wait for the boss ships, the battle with which will not be easy.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$1.24/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length0.8 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 282 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.28, set in November 2022. It has been discounted 88 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, PARTICLE MACE ($4.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Distant Space ($0.99, scores 58).

Of the 282 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 232 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

100% start to 37% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Distant Space 2 scores 59/100 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/729460/distant-space-2
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPixelMouse
PublisherPixelMouse
GenreShooter
Released2017
Achievements150