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Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cover art

Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy

Black Lab Games · Slitherine Ltd. · 2015-06-04

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 09, 2015 (iOS), Jun 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 04, 2015 (Mac), Sep 01, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Aug 25, 2016 (Xbox One)

Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander.

75%
positive of 161 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
3.86★
PlayStation Store rating (94 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a science fiction turn-based strategy video game developed by Black Lab Games and published by Slitherine Software for Windows and macOS on June 4, 2015. It is the second game in the Star Hammer series after Star Hammer Tactics.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (27 reviews).
  • · Top 33% of 27,176 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 161 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.79 at Fanatical (2022-06-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 69 of 103 observed days · $1.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
242420152026Week of 2015-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$3.992015-06-042026-10-112015-06-04 — best price $17.992016-08-05 — best price $19.992017-03-13 — best price $19.992017-11-07 — best price $9.992018-02-27 — best price $9.792018-07-12 — best price $9.792018-12-13 — best price $4.992019-03-27 — best price $19.992019-08-12 — best price $4.992019-12-13 — best price $4.992020-02-28 — best price $19.992020-06-15 — best price $19.992020-11-17 — best price $19.992021-02-20 — best price $19.992021-10-01 — best price $19.992022-02-18 — best price $4.392022-06-06 — best price $4.992022-10-17 — best price $6.992023-01-02 — best price $6.992023-03-20 — best price $4.992023-06-16 — best price $5.592023-09-18 — best price $5.592023-12-21 — best price $4.992024-03-20 — best price $4.992024-06-11 — best price $6.992024-08-19 — best price $4.992024-10-28 — best price $6.992024-12-12 — best price $6.992025-02-21 — best price $19.992025-04-29 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992025-12-02 — best price $19.992026-02-28 — best price $19.992026-04-21 — best price $4.992026-06-11 — best price $19.992026-09-15 — best price $4.992026-10-01 — best price $3.992026-10-11 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 7 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-07-31 — 9 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 6 pageviews2026-08-09 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 6 pageviews2026-08-15 — 10 pageviews2026-08-18 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 4 pageviews2026-08-24 — 6 pageviews2026-08-27 — 9 pageviews2026-08-30 — 3 pageviews2026-09-02 — 2 pageviews2026-09-05 — 6 pageviews2026-09-08 — 4 pageviews2026-09-11 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 8 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-20 — 2 pageviews2026-09-23 — 1 pageviews2026-09-26 — 3 pageviews2026-09-29 — 1 pageviews2026-10-02 — 2 pageviews2026-10-05 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 5 pageviews2026-10-10 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
83.4%
earned "Remnants Bane"
10.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

SpaceAliensSci-fiStrategyTacticalAdventureSimulationTurn-BasedReplay ValueSingleplayer

Census log

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

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