Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online

Skip · RPG · 2012

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
79% of 21,442
Critics
66 players 13 higher
Genre rank
Top 21% RPG

Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews

Time and effort

Main story
207h
To 100%
1077.1h 5.2x the story

Players and genre

Online
1,166 now
Recent reviews
82% 30 days
Better reviewed
73% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 21 percent. It is better reviewed than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ (free, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Champions Online (free, scores 27).

It is still busy. 1.2K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 3, 01:06 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. PCGamingWiki lists loot boxes in it, the aggressive kind of in-app purchase.

More about Star Trek Online

Critics scored it 66. Players sit 13 points higher at 79 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.

207 hours to finish it, 1077 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.2 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reach3.5M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationBoost, Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Loot box
Loot boxes / pay-to-win drag the score down
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesBoost, Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Loot boxPCGamingWiki

About the game

In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 21 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Star Trek Online scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9900/star-trek-online
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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 Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+13
Critics66
Players79
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 21,442 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperCryptic Studios
PublisherArc Games
GenreRPG
Released2012
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate