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Space Empires: Starfury

Malfador Machinations · Strategy First · 2020-08-03

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 22, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.

Space Empires: Starfury is a 2020 Action and Strategy game priced at $9.99, with Mixed reviews from 67% of 21 reviews and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 21 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 20:00 UTC (census sample)

Space Empires: Starfury is a 4X turn-based strategy computer game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Shrapnel Games on September 22, 2003. The game is set in a Space Empires universe containing planetary systems linked by warp points, or wormholes. The game allows the player to control a single spaceship to explore the universe.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 75% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.74 at GamersGate (2021-10-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 21 of 40 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220202026Week of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 20:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.742015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-09-14 — best price $9.992020-11-30 — best price $1.992021-03-22 — best price $1.992021-07-12 — best price $0.992021-10-18 — best price $9.992021-12-02 — best price $1.492022-01-10 — best price $9.992022-03-07 — best price $0.992022-05-02 — best price $9.992022-07-11 — best price $1.872022-09-05 — best price $1.992022-11-07 — best price $1.492022-12-19 — best price $9.992023-02-09 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-05 — best price $1.492023-08-01 — best price $0.992023-09-14 — best price $1.992023-11-27 — best price $9.992024-01-11 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $1.992024-05-23 — best price $9.992024-07-12 — best price $9.992024-09-16 — best price $9.992024-11-21 — best price $9.992024-12-30 — best price $1.502025-02-03 — best price $1.502025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-05-13 — best price $9.992025-07-21 — best price $9.992025-09-16 — best price $9.992025-10-16 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-01-22 — best price $9.992026-03-16 — best price $9.992026-04-14 — best price $9.992026-06-22 — best price $9.992026-07-24 — best price $9.992026-08-21 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3802026-05-29 — 2 pageviews2026-06-02 — 3 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-11 — 1 pageviews2026-06-15 — 2 pageviews2026-06-19 — 3 pageviews2026-06-23 — 0 pageviews2026-06-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-01 — 38 pageviews2026-07-05 — 0 pageviews2026-07-09 — 0 pageviews2026-07-13 — 2 pageviews2026-07-17 — 2 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 2 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-02 — 6 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 4 pageviews2026-08-14 — 2 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews2026-08-22 — 2 pageviews2026-08-26 — 5 pageviews2026-08-30 — 7 pageviews2026-09-03 — 1 pageviews2026-09-07 — 0 pageviews2026-09-11 — 5 pageviews2026-09-15 — 1 pageviews2026-09-19 — 2 pageviews2026-09-23 — 2 pageviews2026-09-27 — 5 pageviews2026-10-01 — 1 pageviews2026-10-05 — 5 pageviews2026-10-08 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DRTSSpaceActionAliensCombatSci-fiTradingStrategySpace Sim

Census log

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

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