Starminer Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-28
- Beautiful and smooth graphics
- Engaging and addictive gameplay
- Modular ship and station building
- Controls are frustrating and unintuitive
- Lack of automation features
- UI is cluttered and confusing
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 12-15GB VRAMpositiveWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 371
- Positive
- 28276.0%
- Negative
- 8924.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 24,442
- Estimated revenue
- $733,016
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5417.09%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,558
- Estimated revenue lost
- $106,704
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5517.4% Avg playtime 0.8h | 5617.7% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 268.2% Avg playtime 6.6h | 17956.6% Avg playtime 8.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 405.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 10.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 0.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
316 total
Organic purchasers30295.6%
Voted up: 74%
Key activations144.43%
Voted up: 86%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
316 total
First impression0-2h16853.2%
Voted up: 65%
Mid game2-10h13041.1%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h134.11%
Voted up: 85%
Endgame20h+51.58%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 74.4%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 371 total.