Shortest Trip to Earth

Buy77%

Mostly Positive · 1k player reviews · Medium confidence

Worth it for the right player.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • Linux

Interactive Fate · Roguelite · Aug 15, 2019

Player review score
77%
Mostly Positive
Price
$25.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
78
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
1
Full audio0 of 1
Subtitles1 of 1

Should I buy Shortest Trip to Earth?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 93 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story: 22 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 18 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 77 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 64 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Interface: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 1k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
40% of themes are praise300 helpful reviews60% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
93 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The music is great: a sort of ambient space sound track that also reminds me of FTL, as well as many other space exploration games.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
22 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The story moments from the randomized planet encounters are well written, but at the time of writing, there are rather few of them.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
18 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics are interesting, with nice-looking star scapes in ship view backgrounds and colourful, though sometimes confusing to comprehend, ship interiors.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Many of the sound effects, too, could probably have been lifted from that game without sounding too different to what's here, but they're pretty solid and do the job well, the physics of sounds traveling in the near-vacuum of space notwithstanding.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay93 reviews
Story22 reviews
Graphics18 reviews
Audio7 reviews
Divided opinion

No themes split opinion in this sample.

Players complain
Combat
58% still recommend
Difficulty
53% still recommend
Interface
38% still recommend
Bugs
60% still recommend
Crashes
43% still recommend
Monetization
43% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$25.99

The lowest we've tracked is $5.97.

7 points recordedtoday · $25.99

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