Sid Meier's Starships (Steam Game) Steam logo

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Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.

Release DateMar 12, 2015
Price$ 14.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)48.9% (mixed) Bottom 10% / 49.6%  Bottom 15%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)49% Bottom 15% / 49.7%  Bottom 15%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)1.9K  Top 10% / 2.3K  Top 10%
Curators46 reviews  Top 15%
Median Play Time7.8 hours  Top 20%
Play Time per Dollar31 minutes
Followers19.6K  Top 5%
Owners± 341.8K  Top 10%
Copies Sold± 160.7K  Top 10%
Gross Revenue ($)± 1.7M  Top 10%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Sid Meier's Starships steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Sid Meier's Starships's Steam rating and reviews between March 2015 and December 2023. Steam's rating is relatively stable, varying from 44.7% (July 2016) to 49.6% (December 2023).

Sid Meier's Starships is an AAA level success, with 2.3K reviews Top 10%. 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 Sid Meier's Starships and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut chart displays the languages of Sid Meier's Starships's reviewers. The most popular language is English (72%), followed by Russian (6%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 24 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game is available in 10 languages, which is great.

Time Played

Chart displaying Sid Meier's Starships percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in Sid Meier's Starships depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is adequate, reaching 24 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 2.6 times lower than the positive reviews median play time.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • simple nature of gameplay
  • typical 4x elements are there
  • customizable ships
  • fun missions
  • visual ship upgrades
  • enjoyable on PC
  • fair price tag
  • easy to jump in and out of
  • very cool idea
  • interesting concept
  • depth of a tablet game
  • gameplay becomes boring quickly
  • vastly expand the content
  • simplistic gameplay
  • no free rotation
  • artificial limit of one fleet
  • ridiculously stripped-down diplomacy
  • conquest is the entire game
  • battle AI is stupid
  • undeveloped and bland

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 48.9%  Bottom 10% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of Sid Meier's Starships's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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