Starminer Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-25
- Strong potential and promise
- Praise for graphics quality
- Unique modular shipbuilding system
- Numerous bugs and crashes
- Poor tutorials and onboarding
- Early access lack of content
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,887
- Positive
- 1,37973.1%
- Negative
- 50826.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 134,492
- Estimated revenue
- $4,033,415
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1769.33%
- Estimated copies lost
- 12,544
- Estimated revenue lost
- $376,195
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1779.4% Avg playtime 0.8h | 522.8% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 33117.5% Avg playtime 24.6h | 1,32770.3% Avg playtime 37.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 15.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 120.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,887 total
Organic purchasers1,81196.0%
Voted up: 73%
Key activations764.03%
Voted up: 86%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,887 total
First impression0-2h36819.5%
Voted up: 48%
Mid game2-10h69036.6%
Voted up: 78%
Late game10-20h39020.7%
Voted up: 81%
Endgame20h+43923.3%
Voted up: 80%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
72.7%
Global baseline 73.1%
11 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,887 total.