ActionAdventureIndieRPG
Starcom: Nexus
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 2,328
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (33%); after 20h it's 1 in 18 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 92% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 2,346 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 24.9h for positive, 20h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (92.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (24)
- Greetings, Commander Meet Commodore Price 100%
- A Hole in Our Universe Travel through a Warp Nexus 95%
- Saurid Survey Survivors Help the Saurid find their missing survey team 87%
- Planetary Scout Complete 25 planetary surveys 78%
- The Morningstar Find evidence of The Morningstar 73%
- Balance of Power Tilted Destroy the Chitik Hive 72%
- Star Trader Trade with another race 66%
- Sector Surveyor Complete 100 planetary surveys 58%
- The Citadel Gain access to Entarq's Citadel 51%
- Phage Eradicated Eliminate the Phage 41%
- Galactic Explorer Complete 250 planetary surveys 41%
- Spelunker Solve the Watering Hole Maze 39%
- The Hidden Lab Explore the hidden ice lab 37%
- Under New Management Collect ore from the Chitik Mining facility a second time 26%
- Fine Feathered Friends Visit the Araonian Provisional Capital 23%
- Star and Bars Achieve rank of Captain 11%
- Our Nyctian Friends Gain the Nyctian research bonus 9.8%
- Wild Goose Chase As least the geese were delicious 9.2%
- Lost Island Visit the Lost Island 7.9%
- Comet Chaser Discover seven different comets 7.1%
- Thank You Thank you for playing Starcom:Nexus! 6.5%
- Zoar Destroyer Destroy the zoar station 4.9%
- The Beast Defeat the beast of the labyrinth 3.5%
- Asteroid Hunter Destroy all the asteroids in the Alpha Galaxy 2.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.