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Ceres

Jötunn Games · Iceberg Interactive · 2015-10-16

Steam

ActionIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 16, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 16, 2015 (Mac), Oct 16, 2015 (Linux)

Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.

0
playing now
52%
positive of 159 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

"The solar system is ravaged. The Earth is gone, shattered to pieces. Nothing remains but a huge ring of rocky debris. Nobody knows why the Gate malfunctioned. It was built to connect our world to other stars, but only a handful of colony ships were sent away before disaster struck. The Gate is believed to have unexpectedly connected to the wrong star -one just going nova. Torrents of gravitational waves flooded our solar system and the Earth was immediately obliterated. The Gate then started connecting to random stars, spewing ashes from dying worlds, radiation from younger suns or even drawi(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 62% of 10,799 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 159 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-04-07) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 24 of 46 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.992015-10-152026-08-242015-10-15 — best price $16.992016-01-26 — best price $19.992016-06-23 — best price $6.792016-08-15 — best price $19.992016-11-30 — best price $19.992017-04-24 — best price $19.992017-09-05 — best price $4.992018-01-09 — best price $19.992018-06-14 — best price $3.992018-10-01 — best price $19.992018-11-30 — best price $19.992019-01-29 — best price $3.992019-06-10 — best price $4.002019-08-29 — best price $4.992019-11-28 — best price $3.992020-02-03 — best price $3.992020-06-12 — best price $19.992020-09-14 — best price $15.942021-01-04 — best price $19.992021-04-07 — best price $0.992021-07-01 — best price $19.992021-10-06 — best price $19.992021-12-13 — best price $15.992022-02-25 — best price $19.992022-05-01 — best price $2.502022-08-01 — best price $19.992022-11-06 — best price $19.992023-01-06 — best price $16.772023-04-14 — best price $19.992023-07-28 — best price $3.282023-11-27 — best price $19.992024-03-19 — best price $3.402024-06-03 — best price $3.602024-08-13 — best price $3.602024-11-13 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $3.002025-12-08 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-08-24 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

RPGIndieSpaceActionSci-fiStrategySimulationTime TravelFemale ProtagonistReal-Time with Pause

Census log

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

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