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Star Control III

Legend Entertainment · Stardock Entertainment · 2017-10-19

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Oct 01, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?

1
playing now
64%
positive of 44 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
56/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Star Control 3 is a 1996 action-adventure game developed by Legend Entertainment and published by Accolade. The third installment in the Star Control trilogy, the game was released for MS-DOS in 1996 and Mac OS in 1998. The story takes place after Star Control II, beginning with a disaster that disrupts superluminal travel through hyperspace. This leads the player to investigate a new quadrant of space, joined by allied aliens from the previous games.

Health check

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  • · Top 79% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.19 at GOG (2016-04-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 21 of 45 observed days · $2.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$1.352015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-06-21 — best price $5.992015-11-15 — best price $5.992016-09-06 — best price $5.992017-06-21 — best price $5.992019-09-30 — best price $3.992020-01-23 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.992020-12-01 — best price $3.992021-02-08 — best price $3.992021-06-28 — best price $3.992021-11-26 — best price $2.992022-01-31 — best price $3.992022-04-04 — best price $3.992022-09-08 — best price $1.992022-11-22 — best price $1.992023-02-24 — best price $1.992023-10-19 — best price $1.352023-12-21 — best price $1.352024-02-22 — best price $3.992024-05-02 — best price $3.992024-08-01 — best price $1.352024-10-17 — best price $3.992025-01-18 — best price $3.992025-04-03 — best price $3.992025-08-26 — best price $1.592025-10-20 — best price $3.992025-12-03 — best price $3.992026-02-12 — best price $1.592026-04-03 — best price $3.992026-08-03 — best price $1.592026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DFMVPvEPvPSpaceActionSci-fiBuildingAction RPGStory Rich

Census log

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

Players also track

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