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Aurora Nights cover art

Aurora Nights

Vladimir Maslov · 2016-05-26

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 26, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Aurora Nights is an entertaining educational game for learning to identify the constellations.

Aurora Nights is a Casual and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $0.99, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (84% of 342 reviews).

0
playing now
84%
positive of 343 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.6k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 343 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.66 at Steam (2017-05-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
252520162026Week of 2016-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$0.99$0.662016-05-272026-01-052016-05-27 — best price $0.992016-09-19 — best price $0.992016-11-18 — best price $0.992016-11-29 — best price $0.992017-01-02 — best price $0.992017-02-06 — best price $0.992017-05-08 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $0.992017-09-04 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992018-01-31 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-04-18 — best price $0.992018-07-05 — best price $0.992018-08-17 — best price $0.992018-10-27 — best price $0.992024-01-19 — best price $0.992024-03-11 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-05-13 — best price $0.992024-06-24 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-08-05 — best price $0.992024-09-23 — best price $0.992024-11-18 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $0.992025-02-17 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-05-19 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
77.4%
earned "Discoverer"
62.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,29274%5

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieSpaceCasualRelaxingEducationAtmosphericSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.