Deals: Starlink: Battle For Atlas Starter Pack Drops To A Ridiculous £9.99 In The UK

Heck that's a nice Christmas present for someone!

Ordered, it's a no brainer at that price

A really solid game and well worth the price, you can even ignore the plastic tat for the most part and just play with a regular controller.

I was just about to purchase it, until I saw it requires a 10 GB download.. now I'm not so sure any more.

Think i purchased it at €30 and shortly after it dropped to €20 or so. It's a good game well worth picking up at that price.

I've been conned - I paid 12 quid the other day for this! To be fair the Arwing model looks really nice and is probably worth the price alone to put on your shelf (it's now the same price as a gen 1 Amiibo after all).

Meanwhile the Download version on the eshop without all the plastic is £70 for the standard set. Insane.

It was definitely a mistake to bring a new toy to life game to the market so soon after the whole genre died on its arse. Okay it's not exactly the same as Skylanders or Disney Infinity, but it just always seemed like this was destined to fail due to the public perception of these types of game. Shame if it was decent.

I'll be picking this up (if it can be fully played without needing to take the stupid toys out the box).

Is it correct that the digital version you can play without the toys on the controller.

But the physical version makes you use the toys on the controller?

If you can play 100% without the toys i would buy it.

It's a great game. I got it for £20 and thought it was well worth it. £10.99 is a bargain....

I hate that I paid full price for this at release. It's constant sales killed any enjoyment I had with the game and I've barely played it now.

Ive never played it but gonna bite at that price and its in stock!

Get outta here! I grabbed for 18.90 € a couple weeks ago, it was its historical minumum, because people who actually played it said it's really a great game, but it's obvious that Ubisoft marketed it really bad, and people (like me) didn't understand it, thus the poor sales.

Bought it for £19 and was still disappointed. That game sucks

I bought this a while back for around £18, well worth the price, a fantastic game - just shame the toys to life dragged it down

Taking a chance and bought it just now. I'm assuming no company would be so dumb to make the toys obligitory to play it. Absolute steal if that's the case.

Ordered!!! Thanks Nintendo life

I bought for 12 flogged the cartridge and made a profit. I kept the tat as that was all I wanted anyway.

I got the digital edition but still haven't got around to playing it yet. Really can't be bothered with the whole toys to life stuff, I just want to enjoy a game without all that in the way.

It's a solid game, I've been having fun with the Star Fox content and it's well worth picking up.

The cut in price is clearly due to the toys. They built way too many of these packs, and they launched it at a time when the genre was dead in the water (Disney Infinity, Skylanders, LEGO Dimensions - all gone).

I still find the whole thing bizarre.

The game though - it's solid enough to recommend.

Woah, if Starlink goes on sale for that cheap in the states at some point then I think I'll have to finally pick it up. =)

They don’t send it to Austria

It doesn’t make any sense but ok.

@TempOr Yes, I played the whole game with the pro controller

This game's really repetitive. I can't really recommend it despite the gorgeous graphics, Star Fox and space exploration.

Doesnt deliver to the Channel Islands even though when you select it it says will be with you in 3 days, but go through, make an account (as you cannot carry on as guest), and then suddenly "does not deliver to this address please try another"

I pulled the trigger when it was £11.99 on Amazon. Gave the Arwing to my young son. £12 for a toy plane for the boy and a game for me felt like a good deal.

@Monkeido It’s because they’ve added in so much extra content. Not because it wasn’t on the cart to begin with.

Sweet I work for Argos so will get it even cheaper with discount

Too busy with my n64 to care about this

@frabbit It can indeed be played without the plastic ships attached! and at £10.99 is a complete bargain... recommended Sir!

@Moose_4 You can play the physical version without attaching the ships, I've had the game since launch physically and have not even pulled the Arwing out of the box as of yet.

Amazon gave me a copy for "free" last week. How very generous of them!

@Precinct1313 Shall pick up today I reckon!

@Precinct1313

Thanks for the reply.

Okay, i will give it a go.

Iv just got a £10 Argos card for £5 on groupon. £5.99 aint bad!

Picked this up in argos the other week for 11.99, still yet to play it but the arwing model does look really nice!

It's a steal. Almost like buying an Amiibo, and getting the game free... Clearance. Sad to see the game sale didn't fare well...

I've been tempted to buy the digital version on sale given that apparently it includes some things that you don't get in the physical version, is it worth the extra stuff or is the physical version more than enough?

Tempted as always, until I see how much it'd cost me to get all the DLC needed to get the complete experience.
And I vaguely remember something about needing to get the digital deluxe set to truly get everything whereas physical + collection packs wouldn't? o.O

Probably wrong about that, but this game's DLC is a pain to keep track off.

It's not a bad game, but the writing has been on the wall for the toys to life games for awhile. Activision (like it usually does) completely killed it like they did with Guitar Hero/Rock Band by flooding the market with toys and over-saturating it with Skylanders. Then Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions came alone riding it's coattails as well as with the first waves of amiibos. It kinda peaked in 2015 then fell off a cliff.

I feel Nintendo is doing it better now with very strategic and limited amiibo releases only releasing small handfuls at a time every few months. Not huge dozen piece waves with certain pieces more limited than others. It's still a good idea to reserve pieces though when you can because you never know how common stuff will be down the road or how hard to find on launch day.

This is actually a great game. Gets a bit repetitive, but I really enjoyed it. For a tenna, or even £15 you can't go wrong

This deal is crap. You get one pilot (okay 2 on switch with fox). You will need to buy more weapons because there are a few basic puzzles that rely on using all the various elemantal weapons. If you don't have them you have to throw things to make up for your lack of weapons. Considering some of them time out pretty quickly, I imagine it's a pain in the ass. I paid the equivalent £20. For that I got 7 ships, 7 pilots, and ten weapons. I might be off by one or two, but you get the gist. That said I enjoyed the campaign but grew quickly bored afterwards.

@Hams96 The digital edition has way more ships, pilots and weapons.

This is why I've been waiting and waiting. It's been $30 on the eShop numerous times already in NA. Since I'm busy with other games still, I'll just wait to see just how far down it will go (or check for it used at GameStop)...

I have this already. I got it mainly for the Star Fox ship to have on my shelf. I've tired playing the game with it a few times, but found it unnecessary, so I play without it, with just the regular controllers. However, there is one thing that I was disappointed with, that somebody already pointed out. If you buy it digitally, you get everything in the game. All pilots and weapons and ships. However, if you buy this Star Fox set, you get the toys, but you only get the weapons, the Star Fox ship and Star Fox, and the default ship and pilot, and that's it. You have to either buy the other weapons or pilots/ships separately digitally, or go to the store and buy their toys separately. So, if you get the deluxe box set, you get the specific toys, but you get less of the game. But if you get it digitally, you get all of the game, but no toys. So, it's a trade-off. I thought the Deluxe version would come with everything. But it doesn't.

@ImagineerNik that happened with me and the Donkey Kong Skylanders game. I wanted to support the system. Within a few months it was in the bargain bin.

Toys to life keep kinda sound cool, but in reality are a pain in the ass and just add clutter.

Anyway, I got this for $30 or so. I am sure it will eventually drop to well below $20.

At that price I had to reserve it. Will collect later.

Oh man, if you haven't bought it yet, PICK IT UP! The game is well worth it, you don't even need the toys, I gave them to my 6 year old and he enjoyed them more than I ever would. I love this game and hope to see a sequel (without the stupid toys lol)

I ended up getting it myself when it dropped to 20-something USD. (On sale) Before that, it was a hard sell. Partly because I'm burned out on Ubisoft open world games, and partly because it's not all on Cart. But it's worth it at these prices. If only to have the Fox and Arwing figures on your shelf.

As for the game itself, it's alright. Aside from the combat, it still shares a lot in common with Ubisofts typical Open world games. Meaning most of the "content" is open world fluff. I found myself starting to get bored towards the end, and just started rushing through the main and starfox story content. Both of which are fairly short, if you ignore most side missions.

Worth a play through at this price. But I'd avoid it if you're an obsessive completionist. 100%ing it is tedious as hell.

Really enjoyed it. Paid less than 20 quid and let's face it, it's the only StarFox game we are getting on switch.

@matdub yeah I know, I'm just wondering if it's worth the price hike though. I think it probably is worth if it pops up in a sale, I'm not that fussed about the physical models tbh

Just a fair warning that Starlink has a tons of DLC including more unlockable things without toys requirement and other Starfox pilots to play. I suggest to wait for the discount price of an bundle if you want to get them all.

No chance, due to that mandatory download just to play it.

Guys. Please. Buy this game, it's so good imo

What a steal! I love Starlink to bits, don't miss out

@Moose_4
You just need to put the physical toys in the game physically once. Then they will be registered digitally so you don’t need to use the toys.

I got the digital deluxe version as my 1st ever game download a couple of weeks ago for £26.99 very much enjoying it. I saw this article and had to pic up a copy £10.99 great just to have a copy on the shelf

I bought four, now i have full set of Arwings on my shelf

Great game. Good buy then wait for the dlc to go on sale before purchasing it.

I really want this, but I have a query that I can’t find the answer to. Do you need to buy extra weapons or stuff to complete the game, can you complete the game with the stuff included in the starter pack.
Please reply, it would be much appreciated. ._.

I've been getting more of the add-on parts now that they're so cheap just because I like collecting them and they really do look good.

@frabbit They were aware of the dying market before its release and pulled out as soon as the sales figures came in.

If they had the conviction to stay behind the game, maybe something could come out of it. But nope, their idea was to release a new I.P. and just hope that the lack of T.T.L. competition would mean their game could succeed.

What kind of sense does it make to venture into a declining market and jump ship when the expected happens?

@Monkeido Buy it, then wait till you buy a bigger SD Card? Got plenty of XBONE games waiting to be played but just because I don't have a External HDD for it yet, doesnt meant I can't take advantage of deals.

@Elvie For all we know, development could have started when toys to life sales were at their highest. What do you do then, scrap a game that's 90%-ish complete and make zero money back because of a declining market, or make as much money back as you can from development costs with what's already done? These types of games are not pooped out in a few months you know.

@matdub not true, you can play the whole game and do all the puzzles without buying any dlc.

@Hams96 you don't need to buy any dlc. I play the whole game for 160 hours plus, did all the puzzles and no dlc was needed.

@Hissscratch139 Some of the puzzles for unlocking towers (or whatever theyre called) need weapons of various elements to solve them. You can pick up cores of these elements and throw them, but this would be difficult for some, and even more so for the puzzles that time out if you dont shot them quick enough.

@Angelic_Lapras_King I checked up on it and development dates back as early as 2013.

I was enjoying the game and, even though personal interests are often at odds with companies, I wanted a bit more than what was provided. It kinda feels like the game and its players were abandoned and I still feel like something could have been done to salvage it but I'm not in their shoes. At least we got that Crimson Moon update.

Cost me nearly 190 for everything, including pre-order figure. Now it looks like you can get the lot, weapons and all for like 110 or so.

It is still not selling at it's previous $20? Or does Ubisoft makes a gazillion of them? Cheaper now than an Amiibo.

My eyes cannot roll any further

Does not deliver abroad 😭

I got this for the princely sum of £1 yesterday from Argos, as I got a free £10 voucher from another purpose. Not played it yet but was letting my son play with the toys, which are actually quite cool.

I feel robbed, I paid £10.99 for this last week 😂

It's a decent game. It's fun just to fly over around the various planets at leisure and build up your haul of treasure to spend on the defences/do a few side quests..
35 hours+ I have played on this now, I think I got my £20 pounds worth...
The model Arwing is nice also...
At £9.99 it's a steal, I would pick it up while you can as we won't see another game like this anytime soon.

Definitely a deal for this price, BUT, the included plastic tat and the massive required 10gb (roughly) download has stopped me.

This is a great game, I really enjoyed it. The mixture of planet and space battles is really good fun. I was sad it didn't do better...but the Toys were definitely a mistake

I picked this up just the other day for 10.99 and I am so impressed. It's great fun. I cant see me buying any more of the toys beyond the Arwing, but I probably will buy some DLC.

@Moose_4 You can play it 100% without the toys. I spent 2 hours playing in handheld mode this morning and its very addictive. The Arwing model will stay on my shelf. It's worth the 10 bucks alone.

Dangit. I really wish this would come to the US. I have been really wanting to try this game...

@Moose_4 It is absolutely true. You do not need the toys to play this game. We only have the Arwing starter pack and enjoy it as-is. A few things are inaccessible without certain pilots or weapons, but those are totally optional (some fast-travel points, maybe, and some upgrades associated with certain character classes) and if you're desperate for them, you can always buy them off the Switch eShop.

Alas, Argos only delivers within the UK. :-/

Yeah at that price its kind of hard not too.

That’s a mayor of crazy town price! It can consider itself reserved ready for collection mañana! Thanks Argos!

Sucks that argos won't deliver outside the UK. If I use a forwarder, they'll charge me like 23 quid which beats the purpose X_X

I thought this would be cool, so I bought it the Christmas it came out. Sadly, I just was not in to the game. I did like the Starfox stuff, and I wish they would specifically make a new Starfox game though.

What an awesome price!!

WTF id buy it at that price. Why not also in the US?

This is one of those games that I thought was awesome when I first started...then it fell into "just fetch things for outposts endlessly" and I got kind of bored with it. Neat concept, but it didn't remain as cool as I thought it was at first.

Just ordered this. At a sub-£10 price, there's no downside really. If it's really that bad, CEX will give you you 50% of that back.

@fuzzyspud too true! Good old CEX

Bought it last week for €20, I really like the graphics and the fact that you can go into space at any time and very smooth as well. Gameplay can be a bit repetitive, but overall great game.

How desperate can you get? Please buy our Trojan horse of a game so we can sell you more microtransactions and junk toys. They must have thousands of these boxes taking up space. Not putting the full game on the cart was a big mistake as it essentially makes the whole package worthless to collectors.

@Old-Red how is it a Trojan horse? Ubi have given up on the toys to life aspect. You basically get a full star fox game for a tenner, there’s dlc making all of the star fox characters playable with extra missions if you’d like it. No need to pay to unlock the other characters.

@TryToBeHopeful no I think that’s still paid dlc. But you don’t have to buy it, and when you have the arwing why would you want anything else?

34.95 on Amazon.... Nope

I bought the digital deluxe version on Switch when it first launched but then rebought at $20 from Best Buy to have the physical Arwing. This was around the holidays last year and they ended up sending me an extra three copies of the physical Xbox One edition. When I called up their support I was told to just keep them. So I ended up just gifting them to friends.

I've since bought up most figures and weapon packs available as well as the recent Star Fox team DLC pack on Switch. Now if only the overpriced Season 2 DLC would go on sale...

Please get this...please

@Nico07 It'll probably go on sale around the holidays, that's how I got collection 1 cheap.

@Elvie actually the whole story builds up really nice and it feels like the game should ho on after it ends... I actually thought it's just the first system I cleaned from all these enemies and that I would actually able to "use" Starlink to switch between star system or what ever... This way the game was much to repetitive and in the end too short. I.personally don't count "hunting" for animals and plants as actual play time, so yeah, too short, not complete, overall a waste of potential!

Not a good game, sold mine after a week, kept the Arwing.

I got this and have been playing it.

Not gonna lie for £10 that was an insane bargain.

Also you dont need the toys to play so thats not an issue and the games been updated with free dlc (the actual game is available basically), along with the low price tag, its actually the best value for money I've gotten on my Switch, even if i get 10 hours of gameplay, it'll be worth it.

I can easily see a good 30 hours here.

@Razer Would you be so kind as to let me know if with the update you get the ships / weapons you would if you bought it digitally? Thank you in advance

@CaptnDave im not sure if you do to be honest. I did get a few extra weapons but i don't know what comes with it digitally?

I wonder if the price drop to 10 Pounds is pure desperation due to the game selling so poorly, or if it's a case of them knowing that once consumers have the game, they'll spend more money on ships and weapons? In that case, the best strategy is to get it onto as many consoles as possible even if that means making nothing off initial sales. It's too bad the game was a flop. It's not my favorite, but at least it was a break from the endless stream of cookie cutter PFS's.

Thanks for the answer all the same. Hope you enjoy the game