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StarBreak

Crunchy Games · 2016-05-10

Steam

ActionFree To PlayIndieMassively Multiplayer

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 10, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 10, 2016 (Mac), May 10, 2016 (Linux)

StarBreak is a unique skill-based action platformer MMO where you explore strange sci-fi worlds alongside dozens of other players, kill legions of dangerous aliens and fight epic boss battles.

StarBreak is an Action, Free To Play, Indie, and Massively Multiplayer game released in 2016, free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 1305 reviews).

45
playing now
79%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

45 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 45 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 27,660 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
212120172026Week of 2017-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

134262026-09-14 23:00 — 90 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 78 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 58 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 88 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 100 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 29 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 73 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 115 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 26 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 80 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 70 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 36 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 70 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 87 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 36 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 71 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 107 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 59 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 76 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 68 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 86 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 45 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 57 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 45 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2531Apr 2016Aug 2026Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 9Aug 2016 — avg 57 · peak 131Dec 2016 — avg 42 · peak 79Apr 2017 — avg 45 · peak 100Aug 2017 — avg 33 · peak 78Dec 2017 — avg 45 · peak 97Apr 2018 — avg 45 · peak 112Aug 2018 — avg 33 · peak 84Dec 2018 — avg 33 · peak 80Apr 2019 — avg 32 · peak 77Aug 2019 — avg 23 · peak 56Dec 2019 — avg 43 · peak 136Apr 2020 — avg 63 · peak 137Aug 2020 — avg 44 · peak 112Dec 2020 — avg 52 · peak 120Apr 2021 — avg 37 · peak 85Aug 2021 — avg 45 · peak 118Dec 2021 — avg 43 · peak 122Apr 2022 — avg 39 · peak 109Aug 2022 — avg 38 · peak 110Dec 2022 — avg 62 · peak 168Apr 2023 — avg 42 · peak 120Aug 2023 — avg 41 · peak 118Dec 2023 — avg 53 · peak 164Apr 2024 — avg 26 · peak 74Aug 2024 — avg 39 · peak 121Dec 2024 — avg 59 · peak 173Apr 2025 — avg 46 · peak 131Aug 2025 — avg 43 · peak 127Dec 2025 — avg 72 · peak 206Apr 2026 — avg 51 · peak 157Aug 2026 — avg 47 · peak 149
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
80.3%
earned "Witness"
6.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportMulti-playerMMOCo-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,4820%84

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieActionSci-fiAdventurePlatformerRogue-likeRoguevaniaMultiplayerPerma Death

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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