Stardeus

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,569 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 247 reviews: 38.2h for positive, 13.6h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (52.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (76)

• Winch Winch two ship sections together. 100%
• One Piece Connect the wrecked ship sections back into one piece. 89%
• The Morning Cup Get someone to drink Coffee. 70%
• This Wasn't Here Before Discover an Egg on your ship. 66%
• First Contact Meet another faction. 64%
• Breached Get boarded by raiders with a Breach Capsule. 63%
• Not That Kind Of Birth Allow Crawlers to hatch inside a colonist. 49%
• $1x10^5 Acquire 100,000 Starcreds. 45%
• Free Hugs Get a Crawler attached to a Human colonist. 44%
• Joy Ride Get a Cat to ride a Cleaning Bot. 44%
• The Terminator Weaponize a Cleaning Bot. 43%
• Crypto Bro Install Starcreds mining upgrade in your Ship Computer. 36%
• Found It Discover a terraformable planet. 34%
• $1x10^6 Acquire 1,000,000 Starcreds. 31%
• Rogue AI Install Asimov Override Module. 19%
• Terraform Atmosphere Create an atmosphere on a planet. 17%
• Terraform Biosphere Create a biosphere on a planet. 16%
• Terraform Oceans Create oceans and rivers on a planet. 16%
• Terraform Terrain Create terrain and continents on a planet. 16%
• The End Settle your human colony in a habitable planet. 16%
• Void Ripper Go through a Black Hole. 15%
• $1x10^7 Acquire 10,000,000 Starcreds. 12%
• I Know Who I Am Clone a Human. 12%
• Crawler Taxi Pick up a Crawler on the way back from a mining expedition. 12%
• $1x10^8 Acquire 100,000,000 Starcreds. 7.6%
• Elysium Turn your Stasis Array into Elysium. 7.5%
• No More Hope Get your Stasis Array destroyed. 7.5%
• I'll Be Back Lose your Ship Computer. 7.3%
• One Of Us Sell a stock at $100K loss in the Stock Market. 2.5%
• $1x10^9 Acquire 1,000,000,000 Starcreds. 1.5%
• Personal Touch Complete a personal request from one of your colonists. 0.4%
• Gone Medieval Watch a colonist lose their mind and sabotage your ship. 0.4%
• Abomination Rebuild a living being out of mostly foreign body parts. 0.2%
• Drill Sergeant Deploy an AutoDrill Rig on a planet. 0.2%
• Signed and Sealed Reach an ending in the Cargo Ship scenario. 0.2%
• Blind Run Reach an ending with Fog of War enabled. 0.2%
• No Mercy Reach an ending on Impossible difficulty. 0.2%
• Never Look Back Reach an ending in the Leaving Earth scenario. 0.2%
• By Human Hands Reach an ending in the No Robots scenario. 0.2%
• Against All Odds Reach an ending in the New Beginning or Wrecked scenario. 0.2%
• Cabin Fever Suffer 100 mental breakdowns in a single run. 0.2%
• Hostile Takeover Eliminate the Capitalist Port. 0.2%
• Chess Club Collect a full set of 32 chess pieces. 0.2%
• Who's a Good Xeno? Make a Crawler part of your colony. 0.2%
• Cyborg Install four robotic body parts into one living being. 0.2%
• Multiverse Tourist Step through the Dark Portal. 0.2%
• Turncoat Get a wounded raider to join your colony. 0.2%
• Those Are Odd-Looking Crawlers Hatch cats out of an Egg. 0.2%
• It's Alive Hatch a human out of an Egg. 0.2%
• Good Neighbors Form an alliance with another faction. 0.2%
• First Blood Win your first ship combat encounter. 0.2%
• Fungal Bloom Let Artillery Fungus spread to 300 plants aboard your ship. 0.2%
• Ghost in the Shell Transfer a human mind into a Core and install it in a robot. 0.2%
• Trailblazer Reach the highest-difficulty region. 0.2%
• Hullbreaker Get your hull pierced by a Hullpiercer raid. 0.2%
• A Fate Worse Than Death Put a living brain into a Mindjar. 0.2%
• Long Live the King Have part of your crew rise up against you in a mutiny. 0.2%
• Swarm Get a Nanobot Hive up and running. 0.2%
• Sworn Enemies Let two colonists come to hate each other. 0.2%
• Safe Passage Deliver a passenger to their destination. 0.2%
• Pentagram Find the derelict ship with a Pentagram Statue. 0.2%
• Housecleaning Eliminate the Pirate Den. 0.2%
• Second Chance Bring a dead colonist back to life. 0.2%
• Destroyer of Worlds Wipe out an entire space sector with a Sector Nuke. 0.2%
• Singularity Hand every Sentinel holding in the Universe over to the Virus faction. 0.2%
• Wingman Win a ship battle with an allied ship fighting on your side. 0.2%
• Signal Traced Follow a mysterious signal to its source. 0.2%
• Fixed Address Reclassify your ship as a Space Station. 0.2%
• Rise and Shine Wake every last sleeper out of a Stasis Array. 0.2%
• Seeing Double Get a colonist accidentally duplicated by a Teleporter. 0.2%
• Genesis Complete all four terraforming stages on one planet. 0.2%
• Titanic Reclassify your ship as a Titan. 0.2%
• Giant Slayer Defeat a Titan class ship in combat. 0.2%
• Loose Ends Hunt down and destroy the traitor ship. 0.2%
• Antivirus Eliminate the Virus HQ. 0.2%
• Till Death Do Us Part Get two colonists to marry each other. 0.2%