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Ceres

Jötunn Games · Iceberg Interactive · 2015-10-16

Steam

ActionIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

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.

Ceres is an Action, Indie, RPG, and Simulation game released in 2015, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (51% of 160 reviews).

0
playing now
51%
positive of 160 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (32 reviews).
  • · Top 32% of 27,966 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 160 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 21 of 40 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320152026Week of 2015-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
160Oct 2015Sep 2024Oct 2015 — avg 16 · peak 53Dec 2015 — avg 7 · peak 21Feb 2016 — avg 7 · peak 30Apr 2016 — avg 3 · peak 13Jun 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2016 — avg 4 · peak 16Dec 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Feb 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Aug 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Dec 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2018 — avg 2 · peak 5Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 7Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Oct 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 2Sep 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Aug 2023 — avg 2 · peak 4Sep 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Sep 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
26.2%
earned "Friendly Fire"
4.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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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Similarity via IGDB.

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