Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $4.99. It has been as low as $3.34.
- Gameplay: 103 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Story and characters: 57 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 20 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 3k player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Astro Prospector is a spacefaring mining adventure with a clear focus on exploration, resource gathering, and incremental progression rather than combat-driven spectacle.
Great price for a fun bullet-hell incremental game that doesn't take too much of your time but also isn't 30 minutes (maybe 2-4 hours for the story depending on how good you are).
There’s a meditative quality to piloting through open space, accompanied by subdued sound design that highlights engine hums, drilling vibrations, and radio crackles.
Pros: pleasing visuals, immersive music, comfy vibes, enjoyable controls, rewarding core loop, delightful storytelling, interesting upgrades, intuitive bullet patterns, has replayability potential.
I played with a mouse, I have no idea how you would play this on controller given how tight the gameplay is.
Looks great on the Steam Deck.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $4.99. The lowest we've tracked is $3.34.
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