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StarDrive cover art

StarDrive

Zero Sum Games · 2013-04-26

SteamGOG

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 26, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.

4
playing now
45%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
56/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

StarDrive is a 4X real-time strategy video game by Zero Sum Games, it was released for Microsoft Windows in April 2013. The game was funded through Kickstarter, raising $17,676 in its December 2011 crowdfunding campaign. The player's goal is to dominate the galaxy with one of the eight races through diplomacy and war while developing new technologies, exploring new star systems and colonizing new planets. The game received a mixed critical reception, generating a score of 61/100 on reviews aggregation website Metacritic. Its sequel, StarDrive 2 contrastingly adopts turn-based strategy gameplay and was released in April 2015.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 20% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 60k–119k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,488 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2023-12-01) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

912026-08-06 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$32.21$4.492015-01-012023-12-082015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-03-09 — best price $7.492015-04-24 — best price $14.992015-06-11 — best price $7.492015-07-29 — best price $29.952015-12-01 — best price $7.492016-01-26 — best price $29.992016-03-23 — best price $13.582016-07-07 — best price $32.212016-09-25 — best price $10.202016-12-12 — best price $29.992017-04-07 — best price $5.992017-07-22 — best price $25.732017-11-09 — best price $5.992018-01-16 — best price $5.992018-05-10 — best price $5.992018-08-02 — best price $29.992018-11-01 — best price $6.692018-12-02 — best price $25.492019-01-07 — best price $26.452019-03-07 — best price $6.002019-06-10 — best price $6.002019-07-23 — best price $25.192019-10-14 — best price $6.002019-11-29 — best price $5.992020-01-19 — best price $6.222020-04-08 — best price $5.392020-06-04 — best price $29.992020-06-25 — best price $5.392020-07-21 — best price $26.882020-08-25 — best price $29.992020-09-25 — best price $29.992020-10-19 — best price $5.992020-11-28 — best price $5.992021-01-01 — best price $22.042021-02-04 — best price $29.992021-03-02 — best price $25.382021-03-25 — best price $29.992021-04-23 — best price $25.382023-12-08 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1102026-05-31 — 2 pageviews2026-06-03 — 1 pageviews2026-06-06 — 5 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1 pageviews2026-06-12 — 3 pageviews2026-06-15 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 0 pageviews2026-06-21 — 3 pageviews2026-06-24 — 2 pageviews2026-06-27 — 4 pageviews2026-06-30 — 5 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-06 — 1 pageviews2026-07-09 — 2 pageviews2026-07-12 — 4 pageviews2026-07-15 — 3 pageviews2026-07-18 — 1 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-30 — 3 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1 pageviews2026-08-11 — 2 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 7 pageviews2026-08-20 — 3 pageviews2026-08-23 — 5 pageviews2026-08-26 — 1 pageviews2026-08-28 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, French, Polish

Player tags

4XRTSIndieSpaceSci-fiStrategyReal-TimeExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

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

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