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Star Control III cover art

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?

Star Control III is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $3.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 44 reviews).

0
playing now
64%
positive of 44 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
56/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 54% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

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 30 of 83 observed days · $2.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220172026Week of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$1.352015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — 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 $1.592026-09-02 — best price $3.992026-09-10 — best price $3.992026-09-18 — best price $3.992026-09-26 — best price $1.592026-10-04 — best price $1.592026-10-12 — best price $3.992026-10-14 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

58132026-05-29 — 32 pageviews2026-06-02 — 22 pageviews2026-06-06 — 24 pageviews2026-06-10 — 21 pageviews2026-06-14 — 18 pageviews2026-06-18 — 39 pageviews2026-06-22 — 18 pageviews2026-06-26 — 34 pageviews2026-06-30 — 37 pageviews2026-07-04 — 19 pageviews2026-07-08 — 24 pageviews2026-07-12 — 26 pageviews2026-07-16 — 18 pageviews2026-07-20 — 24 pageviews2026-07-24 — 17 pageviews2026-07-28 — 20 pageviews2026-08-01 — 24 pageviews2026-08-05 — 17 pageviews2026-08-09 — 29 pageviews2026-08-13 — 43 pageviews2026-08-17 — 27 pageviews2026-08-21 — 27 pageviews2026-08-25 — 20 pageviews2026-08-29 — 27 pageviews2026-09-02 — 15 pageviews2026-09-06 — 14 pageviews2026-09-10 — 24 pageviews2026-09-14 — 26 pageviews2026-09-18 — 23 pageviews2026-09-22 — 31 pageviews2026-09-26 — 26 pageviews2026-09-30 — 18 pageviews2026-10-04 — 20 pageviews2026-10-08 — 24 pageviews
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

Star Control®: OriginsSurvivalistInto the StarsReverse CrawlPLANET ALPHAForce of NatureRebel Galaxy OutlawApsulov: End of Gods

Similarity via IGDB.

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