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2022 · Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World

How long isStarsand?

by Tunnel Vision Studio

7.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 2.5 hours and 21 hours

Almost never seen through: only 2.2% of the players who launched it hold its last story achievement.

Does Starsand hold up?

Grows on people

Do the first two hours of Starsand tell you?

In the first two hours42%recommend it

After that72%recommend it

12 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 8 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 7.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 2.5 hours and 21 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,280 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 63% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 80% at 20–50 hours.

23% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 42% of those recommend it. After the window, 72% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 62% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4 hours in.

When would you get there?

8days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 7.5 hours on Wednesday, October 28.

Half of its reviewers had played between 2.5 and 21 hours: Oct 23 to Nov 10 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 Starsand?

The filter

Tomb raider

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

They hold A start in the sand and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. A start in the sandComplete the tutorial−5149% hold it
  3. Tomb raiderExplore the pyramidFiltered −3415% hold it
  4. Gear up!Wear the Gods Suit−312% hold it
  5. A date with destinyFollow your destiny through the portal−92.9% hold it
  6. Torch bearerBurn the nest−12.2% hold it
How this is counted

49% of the players who launched Starsand hold A start in the sand, its first story achievement on Steam, and 2.2% hold Torch bearer, its last. The steepest drop comes between A start in the sand (49%) and Tomb raider (15%).

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 Starsand worth it?

Is Starsand worth it? It depends.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical survival crafting game gives 2× the hours for the money

  • Mixed

    72% recommend it after the refund windowmost survival crafting games: 83%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 7.5 hours come to $2.67 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 72% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $2.67 an hour, Starsand costs more per hour than 104 of 119 survival crafting games here: the typical one of 119 survival crafting games here charges $1.30.

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.

Would you like Starsand?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Starsand, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Starsand 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.

What did people here do with Starsand?

  • 1 of 3

    Copies in the libraries here: never launched it

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 Starsand

All 30 games like Starsand, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, 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. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.