2018 · Sci-fi · Trading · Tactical RPG
How long isStar Traders: Frontiers?
by Trese Brothers
31 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 11 hours and 80 hours
A bargain: 48¢ an hour, cheaper than 114 of 129 tactical RPGs here.
54% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
70% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
78% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
80% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
87% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
91% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
92% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
93% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
Does Star Traders: Frontiers hold up?
Grows on people
70% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 93% at 200–500 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Star Traders: Frontiers tell you?
In the first two hours54%recommend it
After that86%recommend it
16 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 31 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 11 hours and 80 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 3,830 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 70% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 93% at 200–500 hours.
7% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 54% of those recommend it. After the window, 86% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 80% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 12 hours in.
When would you get there?
4weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 31 hours on Saturday, November 21.
Half of its reviewers had played between 11 and 80 hours: Nov 1 to Jan 9, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Star Traders: Frontiers worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Star Traders: Frontiers
- Steam list price, US
- $14.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 31 h
- tactical RPG rate
- $1.50/h
- 31 h at that rate
- $46
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Star Traders: Frontiers worth it? Yes.
A steal
3.1× the hours of a typical tactical RPG, for the same money
Liked
86% recommend it after the refund windowmost tactical RPGs: 86%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 31 hours come to 48¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 48¢ an hour, Star Traders: Frontiers is cheaper per hour than 114 of 129 tactical RPGs here: the typical one of 129 tactical RPGs here charges $1.50, so the same $14.99 buys 3.1× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (tactical RPGs) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Would you like Star Traders: Frontiers?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Star Traders: Frontiers, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Star Traders: Frontiers would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
Games like Star Traders: Frontiers
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Star Traders: Frontiers: a kind of game it is that Star Traders: Frontiers is not, a feature its tags carry that Star Traders: Frontiers's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.