Per Aspera
Skip · Multiplayer · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 19.9h
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050ti / AMD Radeon RX 570, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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
The value story
April 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. It has been discounted 60 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, RAILGRADE ($29.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Good Company ($24.99, scores 23).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 179 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 55, 2.8 times as much.
Players
34 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Per Aspera scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/803050/per-asperaReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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