ActionAdventureSimulation
Star Control®: Origins
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 20% of players who started
Started playing 93% of owners
Steam reviews 74% positive of 2,697
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (55%); after 20h it's 1 in 7 (15%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 84% of games we track.
- 20% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “First Contact: Drenkend” (Meet the Drenkend) and “Humans Are Survivors” (Complete the main campaign): from 54% to 20% of starters.
- 93% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 2,709 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 27.6h for positive, 7h 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 (93.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- First Contact: Tywom Meet the Tywom. 88% −12
- First Contact: Scryve Meet the Scryve. 75% −13
- First Contact: Kzanti Meet the Kzanti. 64% −11
- First Contact: Mu'Kay Meet the Mu'Kay. 60% −4
- First Contact: Norast Meet the Norast. 56% −4
- First Contact: Drenkend Meet the Drenkend. 54% −2
- Humans Are Survivors Complete the main campaign. Most players quit here 20% −34
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (88)
story milestone ending side
- One Small Step Start the campaign. 100%
- Away Crew Successfully land on a planet. 95%
- First Contact: Tywom Meet the Tywom. 88%
- Face Plant Land outside the landing zone. 81%
- The Codex Open the codex. 79%
- Red Shirts Lose a lander on a planet. 78%
- Boldly Going Somewhere Enter hyperspace for the first time. 76%
- Exo-Explorer Discover a new solar system. 76%
- First Contact: Scryve Meet the Scryve. 75%
- Uncomfortable Wymdoo joins your crew. 74%
- First Contact: Mysterious Aliens Meet the Mysterious Aliens. 71%
- First Contact: Kzanti Meet the Kzanti. 64%
- Poacher Kill an innocent alien critter. 62%
- Technophobe Kill a drone. 62%
- Hail Mail Hail 10 alien vessels. 62%
- First Contact: Mu'Kay Meet the Mu'Kay. 60%
- Stellar Cartography Open the Sector map 10 times. 59%
- First Contact: Norast Meet the Norast. 56%
- First Contact: Drenkend Meet the Drenkend. 54%
- Put Your Feet Up Use auto-pilot 10 times. 53%
- First Contact: Menkmack Meet the Menkmack. 44%
- First Contact: The Measured Meet The Measured. 39%
- One Percent Have 50,000 RUs in the bank. 38%
- First Contact: Trandals Meet the Trandals. 36%
- First Contact: Mowlings Meet the Mowlings. 36%
- First Contact: Jeff Meet Jeff. 34%
- Ice Road Spacer Find one ice world for the Mu'Kay. 34%
- First Contact: Greegrox Meet the Greegrox. 34%
- Took The Bait Accept the Trandals' upgrades. 33%
- Earful Can you hear me now? 33%
- First Contact: Pinthi Meet the Pinthi. 30%
- Ovoid Collect one special egg. 30%
- First Contact: Phamysht Meet the Phamysht. 29%
- Sad Face Make the Tywom cry. 28%
- Rainbows Discovered a rainbow world. 25%
- Kzanti Killer Defeat 10 Kzanti ships during the campaign. 24%
- First Contact: Xraki Meet the Xraki. 24%
- Meat Trader Sell 20 pieces of critter meat. 20%
- Humans Are Survivors Complete the main campaign. 20%
- Are You Proud Of Yourself? Win the game in a mostly benevolent manner. 20%
- Flu Shot Become infected by the Pinthi. 20%
- Voyager Visit 100 star systems. 17%
- Set to Stun Stun 10 Critters. 17%
- Trapper Sell 20 live critters. 16%
- Cuddler Find a better way to cuddle. 15%
- Plain Ribbon Lose a Fleet Battle. 12%
- Trainee Win your first Fleet Battle. 11%
- Graduate Win a Fleet Battle without losing ships. 11%
- Shipwright Create a ship in the ship builder. 7.6%
- Carnivore Collect 100 meat. 5.8%
- Battle of Mars Win the "Battle of Mars." 5.1%
- Deep Space Win "Deep Space." 4.9%
- Athara Win "Athara." 4.6%
- Callum's Deep Win "Callum's Deep." 4.4%
- Maelstrom Win "Maelstrom." 4.3%
- Mu'Kay Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Mu'Kay. 3.4%
- Mysterious Captain Win a Fleet Battle match with these mysterious aliens. 2.7%
- Mowlings Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Mowlings. 2.5%
- Pinthi Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Pinthi. 2.4%
- Xraki Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Xraki. 2.4%
- Greegrox Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Greegrox. 2.2%
- Scryve Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Scryve. 2.2%
- Tywom Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Tywom. 2.2%
- Commander Win 10 Fleet Battles. 1.7%
- Drenkend Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Drenkend. 1.4%
- Phamysht Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Phamysht. 1.4%
- Master Cyborg Win a Fleet Battle on the hardest difficulty. 1.4%
- Fancy Ribbon Lose 10 Fleet Battle matches. 1.3%
- The Measured Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Measured. 1.3%
- Menkmack Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Menkmack. 1.3%
- Kzanti Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Kzanti. 1.2%
- Trandals Captain Win a Fleet Battle match as the Trandals. 1.1%
- Copycat Enter "Kirk" as your captain's name. Don't get us in trouble. 1.0%
- Shantid Destroyer Win Fleet Battles with the Shantid Destroyer 0.9%
- Xraki Horror Win Fleet Battles with the Xraki Horror 0.9%
- Harmony Fighter Win Fleet Battles with the Harmony Fighter 0.7%
- Inamorata Strike Win Fleet Battles with the Inamorata Strike 0.7%
- Menkmack Opportunist Win Fleet Battles with the Menkmack Opportunist 0.7%
- Muaertreaze Fighter Win Fleet Battles with the Muaertreaze Fighter 0.7%
- Norast Diamond Win Fleet Battles with the Norast Diamond 0.7%
- Radiant Angel Win Fleet Battles with the Radiant Angel 0.7%
- Scavenger Win Fleet Battles with the Scavenger 0.7%
- Trandal Overwhelmer Win Fleet Battles with the Trandal Overwhelmer 0.7%
- Vulzon Galley Win Fleet Battles with the Vulzon Galley 0.7%
- Xelnathi Conqueror Win Fleet Battles with the Xelnathi Conqueror 0.7%
- Admiral Win 100 Fleet Battles. 0.4%
- Best-est Ribbon Lose 100 Fleet Battle matches. 0.4%
- You Did What You Had To Win the game in a not terribly benevolent manner. 0.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.