2013 · 4X · Space · Sci-fi
How long isStarDrive?
by Zero Sum Games
22 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 57 hours
Poorly received: only 47% recommend it past the refund window; most strategy games here, 88%.
42% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
48% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
57% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
Does StarDrive hold up?
Grows on people
Do the first two hours of StarDrive tell you?
In the first two hours26%recommend it
After that47%recommend it
17 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 22 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 57 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,480 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 42% recommend it at 10–20 hours, and 57% at 50–100 hours.
11% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 26% of those recommend it. After the window, 47% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 85% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 14 hours in.
When would you get there?
3weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 22 hours on Wednesday, November 11.
Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 57 hours: Oct 26 to Dec 16 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 StarDrive worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
StarDrive
- Steam list price, US
- $29.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 22 h
- strategy game rate
- $1.67/h
- 22 h at that rate
- $37
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is StarDrive worth it? It depends.
Fair price
About what a typical strategy game charges: $1.36 an hour
Divisive
47% recommend it after the refund windowmost strategy games: 88%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $29.99, the typical player's 22 hours come to $1.36 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 47% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of StarDrive costs about what the typical one of 968 strategy games here charges $1.67.
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 (strategy games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, 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 StarDrive?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like StarDrive, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long StarDrive 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.
@foxworks holds this page
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
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How this is counted
The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.