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A Story In Space

Joshua Cutting · 2020-08-19

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 18, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take on the persona of an intergalactic bounty hunter to try to save yourself and the people of the mysterious warring planets of Hakarr and Pahnbuk!

A Story In Space is a free-to-play Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2020, estimated to have 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment from 74% of 23 reviews.

0
playing now
74%
positive of 23 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 72% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320202025Week of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
80.5%
earned "Nugg eater"
70.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DRPGIndieSpaceActionAdventureTurn-BasedChoices MatterTurn-Based Combat

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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