Star Trek Online
Skip · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 207h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 21 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 72 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 28).
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.
Still 1.1K concurrent players, 14 years in.
It is still busy. 1.1K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: boost and cosmetic.
Players
1,057 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Star Trek Online scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9900/star-trek-onlineThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3.
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