Catastronauts

Catastronauts

Skip · Multiplayer · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $15.99.

Length
5.9h
Value
$2.71/hr
Reviews
72% of 229 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.19 (80% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 7 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

Holding it back
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.71/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 149 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

About the game

Can you deal with unrelenting disaster and hold your ship together long enough to destroy the enemy invaders? Repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the torpedoes, avoid deadly solar flares, destroy your friends and clone them back again; it's all in the life of a Catastronaut!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GT 740 | Radeon HD 5770 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 36 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 11 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 48 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Party Animals ($19.99, scores 51) and Unrailed! ($2.99, scores 83) both outscore it.

The drop-off

40% start to 1% 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
Catastronauts scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/737890/catastronauts
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperInertia Game Studios
Publisher Inertia Game Studios
GenreMultiplayer
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12