2016 · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
How long isStarbound?
by Chucklefish
44 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 16 hours and 110 hours
Starbound among the 104 survival crafting games here
The whole tier list#26
of 104
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 73%
- got past 2 hours
- +8 on the kind's 65%
- 34%
- past 20 hours
- +3 on the kind's 31%
- 85%
- launched it
- +7 on the kind's 78%
- 479
- libraries own it
- 1 in 5 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Long for a survival crafting game: 44 hours for the typical player, longer than 139 of 153 survival crafting games here.
67% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
85% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
89% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
91% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
92% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
92% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
91% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
91% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
88% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Starbound hold up?
Holds steady
Do the first two hours of Starbound tell you?
In the first two hours67%recommend it
After that91%recommend it
10 in 100 said no: 9 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
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 token 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.
It holds steady: between 85% and 92% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
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.
When would you get there?
6weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 44 hours on Monday, December 28.
Half of its reviewers had played between 16 and 110 hours: Nov 30 to Mar 4, 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.
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.
How this is counted
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%).
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.
Is Starbound worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
Starbound
- Steam list price, US
- $14.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 44 h
- survival crafting game rate
- $1.43/h
- 44 h at that rate
- $63
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Starbound worth it? Yes.
A steal
4.2× the hours of a typical survival crafting game, for the same money
Loved
91% recommend it after the refund windowmost survival crafting games: 83%
Gets played
85% of owners here have played itmost survival crafting games: 80%
How this is counted
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. At 34¢ an hour, Starbound is cheaper per hour than 147 of 153 survival crafting games here: the typical one of 153 survival crafting games here charges $1.43, so the same $14.99 buys 4.2× 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 (survival crafting games) 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.
Is Starbound better now than at launch?
November 2013
97%
≈ 9,880 reviews
Now
80%
≈ 2,300 reviews
How this is counted
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.
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.
Where can I play Starbound today?
On Xbox Series, Xbox One and PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPC2016
- todayXbox Series2024
- todayXbox One2024
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Starbound came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Starbound?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Starbound, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Starbound 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.
@pr-xy holds this page
- 1st
@pr-xy214 h - 2nd
@zocchihedron202 h - 3rd
@dougtheduck162 h - 4th
@vivi-the-moth71 h - 5th
@nervoser-owo69 h - 6th
@ravage37 h - 7th
@geronimo37 h - 8th
@poor-leno19 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Starbound?
1 in 49
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like Starbound
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 Starbound: a kind of game it is that Starbound is not, a feature its tags carry that Starbound's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.