The Game Census
Startopia cover art

Startopia

My Little Planet Ltd · 2013-10-10

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 04, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

2
playing now
90%
positive of 971 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
90/100
IGDB user rating (20 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Startopia is a video game by Mucky Foot Productions and published by Eidos in June 2001, in which the player administers various space stations with the task of developing them into popular hubs. The game has a comical overtone, with lighthearted humour and cartoonish aliens. The game was re-released on GOG.com in September 2012 and was added to the Steam catalogue in October 2013.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 33% of 6,748 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 39k–78k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 971 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$6.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.83 at GOG (2020-04-29) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days · $6.16 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.972015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-01-22 — best price $6.492015-03-23 — best price $5.992015-04-23 — best price $7.502015-06-03 — best price $6.492015-06-18 — best price $5.992015-07-15 — best price $6.492015-11-13 — best price $1.742016-01-28 — best price $6.992016-03-07 — best price $6.992016-06-08 — best price $1.492016-07-20 — best price $4.892016-12-01 — best price $2.392017-03-21 — best price $6.992017-07-17 — best price $6.992017-11-24 — best price $1.752018-01-11 — best price $6.992018-04-03 — best price $6.992018-08-06 — best price $0.972018-11-21 — best price $0.972019-01-23 — best price $1.192019-03-05 — best price $0.982019-04-17 — best price $1.332019-06-19 — best price $6.992019-08-30 — best price $0.982019-11-21 — best price $0.972020-01-23 — best price $0.972020-03-18 — best price $0.972020-05-21 — best price $0.972020-12-22 — best price $5.242021-12-13 — best price $3.492024-12-19 — best price $2.792026-08-30 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

RTSFunnySpaceAliensComedySci-fiSandboxStrategyColony SimManagement

Census log

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

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