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Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Early AccessJun 16, 2020
Release DateMay 24, 2022
Price$ 34.99  Top 3%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)89.6% (very positive) Top 30% / 89.3%  Top 25%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)87.4% Top 10% / 87.2%  Top 10%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)15.9K  Top 2% / 17.8K  Top 2%
Curators222 reviews  Top 2%
Median Play Time40.1 hours  Top 3%
Play Time per Dollar1.2 hour  Top 20%
Followers87K  Top 2%
Owners± 607K  Top 5%
Copies Sold± 548.7K  Top 3%
Gross Revenue ($)± 10.8M  Top 2%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Hardspace: Shipbreaker steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Hardspace: Shipbreaker's Steam rating and reviews between June 2020 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 92.3% (December 2020) and 89% (October 2022), with relatively small variations.

With 17.8K reviews Top 2%, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is an undeniable major AAA level success. The chart looks like a long tail distribution, which sometimes means that the marketing was concentrated on the game launch and then stopped, and that no major update or discounts followed.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Hardspace: Shipbreaker and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut chart shows Hardspace: Shipbreaker's review languages. The most popular language is English (84%), followed by Simplified Chinese (4%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 25 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game has been translated in 9 languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying Hardspace: Shipbreaker percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Hardspace: Shipbreaker, showing a comparison between positive and negative reviews. It also shows the reviews during Early Access. The time played is great, reaching 95 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 2.3 times less than the median for positive reviews. Some players have left a negative review after playing a significant amount of time (63 hours in the 80th percentile) which could mean that a part of Hardspace: Shipbreaker's fanbase was unhappy about an update and review bombed the game. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Unique gameplay for puzzler fans
  • Rewarding and challenging mechanics
  • Semi-randomly configured ships
  • Physics are pretty good
  • Procedurally generated ships
  • Great idea/implementation
  • Very good atmosphere
  • Very good gameplay
  • Very good controls
  • Great sound design
  • Storytelling does not match the gameplay
  • Flat and forgetful story
  • Only 6 different ships
  • Low res textures
  • Needs better guidance for player controls
  • Some mechanics need further tuning
  • Constantly thrown off by fairy-tale story
  • Thin on content

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's rating of 89.6%  Top 30% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Hardspace: Shipbreaker's review data provided by Steam. Moreover, be aware that problems aren't always meant to be solved. Communicating clearly and managing the player's expectations is important too!

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