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Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters

Pistol Shrimp · 2024-02-19

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 08, 2024 (Mac), Aug 01, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Experience the award-winning space saga. Travel to hyperspace, discover alien worlds, and meet an eclectic cast of characters. Find out what happened after the Ur-Quan invasion. And if the war still rages, fight for Earth and the Alliance of Free Stars!

95%
positive of 401 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
The Ur-Quan Masters is a 2002 open-source fangame modification, based on the action-adventure science fiction game Star Control II. The original game was released for PCs in 1992 and ported to the 3DO console in 1994. It has been frequently mentioned among the best games of all time, with additional praise for its writing, world design, character design, and music.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 36 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (168 reviews).
  • · Top 40% of 14,056 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Census log

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