The Game Census
Star Horizon cover art

Star Horizon

Orbital Knight · 2015-05-28

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: May 14, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 18, 2014 (Android), May 28, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 28, 2015 (Mac), May 28, 2015 (Linux), May 28, 2015 (iOS)

Experience fast action, thrilling levels, spectacular explosions and lots of pew-pew-pew. Star Horizon is a reboot for the on-rails space shooter genre.

60%
positive of 149 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
43/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.88
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 133% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 22,680 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.7k–8.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 149 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.88-73%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2017-06-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 14 of 15 observed days · $0.39 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152025Week of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.492015-05-282026-10-012015-05-28 — best price $7.192015-06-04 — best price $7.992015-08-24 — best price $7.992015-11-16 — best price $7.992015-12-01 — best price $7.992016-01-04 — best price $7.992016-01-18 — best price $7.992016-01-26 — best price $7.992016-02-05 — best price $3.992016-05-05 — best price $2.712016-06-23 — best price $2.392016-09-08 — best price $3.992016-11-23 — best price $2.392016-12-22 — best price $2.392017-01-12 — best price $1.992017-01-27 — best price $4.992017-05-25 — best price $7.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-11-28 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-11-01 — best price $4.992018-11-09 — best price $4.992024-03-14 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-12-15 — best price $6.992026-01-26 — best price $6.992026-03-09 — best price $6.992026-03-26 — best price $6.992026-04-20 — best price $6.992026-06-01 — best price $6.992026-09-26 — best price $6.992026-10-01 — best price $1.88
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
42.6%
earned "BFs 4 3V3R!"
13.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudStatsCommentary availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-06-02 (Steam store data)

Player tags

FPSRPGIndieSpaceActionSci-fiSandboxSurvivalAdventureSpace Sim

Census log

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

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