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Project Starship

Panda Indie Studio · 2016-04-05

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 13, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 05, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 12, 2020 (PlayStation 4), May 06, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Feb 12, 2020 (Xbox One), Feb 12, 2020 (Xbox Series X|S)

Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?

Project Starship is an Action, Casual, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $2.99, with Very Positive reviews (81% of 469 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

1
playing now
81%
positive of 469 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
3.98★
PlayStation Store rating (199 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Guide your hero trough storms of bullets, challenge demons and gods, in an epic and adrenalinich fight with the unknown, where everything is obscure and arcane. Go Deeper, find the hidden eye that everything watch.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (41 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 12k–28k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 469 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.24 at IndieGala Store (2016-05-02) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 0 of 7 observed days · $4.75 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
303020162026Week of 2016-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1340Apr 2016Sep 2024Apr 2016 — avg 13 · peak 453Jun 2016 — avg 25 · peak 161Aug 2016 — avg 6 · peak 27Oct 2016 — avg 5 · peak 86Dec 2016 — avg 5 · peak 35Feb 2017 — avg 4 · peak 72Apr 2017 — avg 16 · peak 72Jun 2017 — avg 11 · peak 240Aug 2017 — avg 22 · peak 568Oct 2017 — avg 78 · peak 1,335Dec 2017 — avg 41 · peak 553Feb 2018 — avg 38 · peak 528Apr 2018 — avg 24 · peak 638Jun 2018 — avg 5 · peak 54Aug 2018 — avg 46 · peak 716Oct 2018 — avg 2 · peak 127Dec 2018 — avg 3 · peak 73Feb 2019 — avg 5 · peak 114Apr 2019 — avg 2 · peak 83Jun 2019 — avg 1 · peak 51Aug 2019 — avg 11 · peak 1,007Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 100Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2020 — avg 30 · peak 618May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 11Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2021 — avg 3 · peak 12Sep 2021 — avg 4 · peak 11Nov 2021 — avg 1 · peak 32Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Oct 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Feb 2023 — avg 1 · peak 2May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 4Sep 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.002015-01-242026-10-112015-01-24 — best price $3.992015-04-19 — best price $0.002016-03-08 — best price $2.992016-04-12 — best price $0.992016-05-03 — best price $0.242016-06-17 — best price $0.992016-09-05 — best price $0.292016-11-23 — best price $0.492017-01-29 — best price $0.492017-06-23 — best price $0.492017-10-26 — best price $0.492017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-06-21 — best price $0.492018-09-15 — best price $0.492019-02-04 — best price $0.692019-10-28 — best price $0.692020-02-02 — best price $0.892020-07-09 — best price $2.992020-12-01 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-12-01 — best price $2.992022-03-07 — best price $2.992022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-01-05 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-11-28 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $2.992026-09-20 — best price $4.992026-10-11 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
6.5%
earned "KICK ASS"
5.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-10-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)4,08464%33
PS4 (PlayStation)2,70397%19
PS4 (PlayStation)2,47297%19
PS4 (PlayStation)1,20099%19
Steam (Steam)1,05828%17
PS5 (PlayStation)77697%19
PS5 (PlayStation)60497%19
PS5 (PlayStation)316100%19
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DIndieActionCasualBullet HellShoot 'Em UpPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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