Stellarcraft

i can see why other reviews have not played more than an hour, it was not very good text staying stuck on screen, 10gb of stock assets, confusing controls, dreadful UI, not very intuitive a cruel and unusual experience edit: oh! it makes more sense! possible fraud! or rather misleading customers for purchases really, depends where your laws are coming from i am going to use the reviews that are marked as "steam purchased" for this at the time of writing, there are 51 reviews the game has received its positive reviews across 3 "spikes" of activity that you can see in the review graphs split within 3 basically weeks -the week of october 4th 2024 had 11 reviews and 2 more the following week (early access release day) -the week of february 7th 2025 had 13 reviews -the week of march 6th 2026 had 17 reviews (1.0 release day, during the sale that pushed me to try this which is convenient) this is 43 of its 47 positive reviews acquired in the span of 3 review bursts this leaves only 4 positive reviews spread in the span of over a year it is rather suspicious for a game that can have such sudden positivity spikes (implying a following of some kind) to have other reviews sprinkled so rarely across time did i mention that a good chunk of these reviews dont exceed 2 hours, that a good amount are in german, that the developer is from germany, and that quite a few of them have the developer in their friendlist at the time of writing this? devs even inflate their player count, one has 500 hours and another over 1.8k, yet there are several achievement that 0% of steam users have acquired which lol if you check steamdb playtime and concurrent players it's certainly something did you know this game has a soundtrack? i sure didn't but hey it's on the store and these very happy reviewers have yet to review anything on that one at all, not uncommon for people to use OSTs as developer tips but huuuh must have been the wind in the end this is all circumstantial evidence and doesn't prove anything, if anything according to their other games' reviews it sounds like they're lurking streamer chats indirectly pressuring them to end up writing positive reviews, but it certainly gives an awfully predatory and misleading look either way, get yourself better slop extra edit: developer response below, take it as you wish considering the nature of my post, or that they've had other updates in-between and they didnt all equally bump as positively another edit: sudden positive review burst the week after, yet again low playtimes without returning, all this after a new "update" despite the sale having ended, the excuse of them being "returning players" seems extremely shallow because returning and still having less than 3 hours of playtime while implying this "new update" has enough quality content to push people to review at all just does not sound convincing to me, at least this review is conveniently buried below now yet another edit: i actually kind of enjoy looking back on here every now and then because you see reviews with 1.5 hours saying they loved "playing for four hours with 3 friends" and they have only 2 steam friends, or even seeing that the sale at the time of THIS edit this has the soundtrack on sale but not the game, ALSO i saw a review with 1.2 hours with zero achievements despite the game having an achievement for finishing the tutorial, any level, failing, or even entering one of the rooms in the hub so like lol lol just a small developer being showered in love suddenly by a dozen steam accounts with profiles stating they are each from pakistan (just coincidences oopsiee)

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a semi working asset pack tower defense game that is for sure i think, you and forgotten realms have the same dealer

Fun game with a lot to do. Easy to pick up, hard to put down. Definitely worth a go!

[b]이 게임은 제작사로부터 큐레이터 커넥트 받은 게임입니다.[/b] [h1]3D 타워디펜스 게임. 혼자보다는 다수가 하게 설계되어 있습니다.[/h1] 약간 투박하면서도 갖출건 잘 갖춘 타워디펜스 게임입니다. 자원을 수집하면서 동시에 적의 돌격을 막아야 하기 때문에 이것저것 할것이 많으나 시간이 꽤 촉박합니다. 그러므로 시간/자원을 어디에 집중할지 빨리 결정해야 하는 게임이기도 합니다. 난이도와 밸런스는 잘 다듬어져있는데 전체적으로 좀 느린 감각이 있고, 최적화가 좀 안되어 있습니다. 아마 이건 패치를 통해서 해결될것입니다. 미션을 진행할 수록 플레이어가 할 수 있는것이 늘어나고 설치할 수 있는 타워 량이 늘어나며, 여러가지 영구적인 업그레이드를 할 수 있습니다. 처음에 게임에 적응하기 곤란하지 않도록 튜토리얼이 있기는 한데... 아무래도 이 게임만이 가진 특유한 시스템 때문에 약간은 버벅거릴 수도 있습니다. 기계번역이지만 한글화 되어있으며 도전과제가 존재합니다. 위에서도 적었지만 이 게임은 혼자서 하기 보다는 다수가 하는것을 고려하여 만들어져있습니다. 물론 적은 숫자(혹은 한명) 플레이 할 경우 인원 숫자에 맞춰 적들의 숫자가 조절되기도 합니다. 끝으로 시간이 흘러 패치가 많이되면 괜찮은 게임이 될거라 생각합니다. [h1]관심이 있으신분은 할인할 때 고민해보세요.[/h1]

Super fun in co-op with friends. You can easily spend a few hours just messing around, building towers and fighting enemies together. Good vibes overall.

not really worth $10, but its fun. id say its worth like $5, but then again, you get your moneys worth if you are the type to 100% games. it is fairly hard, but may be easier with more then 2 people. cool maps. 6.5/10

Automation 2.0 update is a game changer. Managing drones and production lines makes the later waves much more manageable. Strategic depth is definitely there.

Just hopped into Stellarcraft with zero expectations, and wow, it actually grabbed me. There’s something addictive in this game... Not gonna lie, some upgrades feel slow, but that doesn’t kill the vibe. I can totally see myself coming back

I did not expect THIS much! Different biomes, mobs, interesting structures and co-op with your friends, what can be better? huh