StarMade Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-23
- Deep sandbox building freedom
- Approachable yet powerful logic system
- Active development and updates
- Prolonged early access frustrates players
- Steep learning curve and poor onboarding
- Frequent drastic changes force relearning
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 2,995
- Positive
- 2,02867.7%
- Negative
- 96732.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 191,069
- Estimated revenue
- $2,864,124
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 49.76%
- Estimated copies lost
- 255
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,822
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 49.8% Avg playtime 0.6h | 37.3% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1126.8% Avg playtime 657.2h | 2356.1% Avg playtime 615.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 6.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 349.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
41 total
Organic purchasers2151.2%
Voted up: 62%
Key activations2048.8%
Voted up: 65%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
41 total
First impression0-2h717.1%
Voted up: 43%
Mid game2-10h614.6%
Voted up: 33%
Late game10-20h37.32%
Voted up: 67%
Endgame20h+2561.0%
Voted up: 76%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 63.4%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,995 total.