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2016 · Action · Adventure · Casual

How long isStarbound?

by Chucklefish

44 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 16 hours and 110 hours

Does Starbound hold up?

It holds steady: between 85% and 92% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

How long would it take you?

Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in Starbound, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

@poor-leno holds this page

  1. 1st@poor-leno19 h
  2. 2nd@foxworks5 min
  3. 3rd@ninjakiero-874 min

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

Is Starbound worth it?

  • 91%recommend it once the refund window has closed
  • 85–92%at every stage past two hours: it holds steady
  • 24 of 103Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it

Do the first two hours of Starbound tell you?

In the first two hours67%recommend it

After that91%recommend it

18 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.

3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 67% of those recommend it. After the window, 91% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 89% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 35 hours in.

Where do players get filtered in Starbound?

The filter

The Wanderer

24 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Congratulations on Your Graduation! and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Congratulations on Your Graduation!Survive the Protectorate. It could have been worse.−1882% hold it
  3. The WandererMeet Esther.Filtered −2458% hold it
  4. The HopefulFix your ship.−652% hold it
  5. The BraveReturn Nuru to the outpost.−1933% hold it
  6. The WiseReturn Koichi to the outpost.−726% hold it
  7. The DevoutReturn Tonauac to the outpost.−521% hold it
  8. The ResilientReturn Lana Blake to the outpost.−417% hold it
  9. The LoyalReturn the Baron to the outpost.−215% hold it
  10. The ProtectorDefeat the Ruin.−114% hold it

How far do players get in Starbound?

82% of the players who launched Starbound hold Congratulations on Your Graduation!, its first story achievement on Steam, and 14% hold The Protector, its last. The steepest drop comes between Congratulations on Your Graduation! (82%) and The Wanderer (58%).

Is Starbound better now than at launch?

Its Steam reviews began in November 2013. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 97% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 80% do.

Did everyone who owns Starbound play it?

24 of 103

Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it

One case is one library's copy, lit as far as its hours go.Never launched

How well is Starbound remembered?

1 in 47

Name 100 runs say its name, 2.1% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.

How this page counts

The hours
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 44 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 16 hours and 110 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 123,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
The price
At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 44 hours come to 34¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. 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.
Where players stop
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Then and now
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Everyone's copy
Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.