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LONESTAR

Math Tide · Thermite Games · 2025-04-03

SteamEpic Games Store

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 03, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 03, 2025 (Mac), Apr 03, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!

LONESTAR is an Adventure, Indie, RPG, and Strategy title released in 2025, priced at $12.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 2439 reviews).

25
playing now
91%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
51/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.99
steam price (US)

25 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 25 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 180 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~23/week).
  • · Review velocity down 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (591 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 28,760 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 49k–110k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,439 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.84 at GamesPlanet US (2026-07-31) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 33 of 51 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
54654620242026Week of 2024-01-01: 546 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 353 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

9592026-09-15 02:00 — 15 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 12 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 17 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 15 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 9 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 22 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 40 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 45 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 72 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 47 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 57 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 79 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 22 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 32 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 74 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 46 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 42 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 48 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 23 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 40 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 39 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 37 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 22 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 25 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
74123Jan 2024Aug 2026Jan 2024 — avg 741 · peak 1,539Feb 2024 — avg 227 · peak 591Mar 2024 — avg 122 · peak 277Apr 2024 — avg 73 · peak 176May 2024 — avg 49 · peak 92Jun 2024 — avg 46 · peak 117Jul 2024 — avg 48 · peak 95Aug 2024 — avg 33 · peak 74Sep 2024 — avg 35 · peak 81Oct 2024 — avg 26 · peak 88Nov 2024 — avg 26 · peak 61Dec 2024 — avg 34 · peak 70Jan 2025 — avg 51 · peak 205Feb 2025 — avg 82 · peak 222Mar 2025 — avg 44 · peak 109Apr 2025 — avg 604 · peak 1,532May 2025 — avg 220 · peak 423Jun 2025 — avg 118 · peak 281Jul 2025 — avg 82 · peak 157Aug 2025 — avg 63 · peak 114Sep 2025 — avg 53 · peak 125Oct 2025 — avg 48 · peak 101Nov 2025 — avg 35 · peak 63Dec 2025 — avg 62 · peak 132Jan 2026 — avg 49 · peak 111Feb 2026 — avg 59 · peak 163Mar 2026 — avg 43 · peak 137Apr 2026 — avg 36 · peak 102May 2026 — avg 32 · peak 119Jun 2026 — avg 35 · peak 95Jul 2026 — avg 36 · peak 82Aug 2026 — avg 23 · peak 50
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$12.99$0.002024-01-182026-08-132024-01-18 — best price $8.992024-03-25 — best price $8.492024-06-03 — best price $9.992024-07-23 — best price $7.992024-08-12 — best price $7.652024-09-09 — best price $9.992024-11-01 — best price $9.992024-12-03 — best price $7.282024-12-10 — best price $7.282025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-01-20 — best price $6.292025-02-10 — best price $8.892025-03-21 — best price $8.892025-04-17 — best price $12.992025-06-03 — best price $12.992025-07-10 — best price $12.992025-07-28 — best price $12.992025-09-01 — best price $9.092025-09-15 — best price $7.142025-10-20 — best price $12.992025-12-11 — best price $7.792026-01-05 — best price $9.892026-02-24 — best price $12.992026-03-23 — best price $5.582026-04-10 — best price $4.992026-04-20 — best price $9.892026-04-27 — best price $6.492026-05-18 — best price $6.492026-06-02 — best price $12.992026-06-19 — best price $6.492026-07-20 — best price $5.842026-08-03 — best price $12.992026-08-13 — best price $5.85
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
86.5%
earned "Best Rookie"
11.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-04-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,6151%46
Switch (Nintendo)90%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

StrategyCard GameDifficultRogue-likeRogue-liteTurn-BasedPerma DeathCard BattlerDeckbuildingReplay Value

Census log

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

Recent updates

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