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Children of the Sun cover art

Children of the Sun

René Rother · Devolver Digital · 2024-04-09

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 09, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

On a deadly road trip into darkness, control the path of a single bullet and unleash a fury of vengeance on the sinister cult that ruined your life in this tactical puzzle-shooter.

Children of the Sun is a 2024 Action, Indie and Strategy game, estimated to have 100,000 .. 200,000 owners, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 2297 reviews) and costs $14.99.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

2
playing now
93%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
5h
to beat · rushed 4h · completionist 5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Children of the Sun is a 2024 action-puzzle video game developed by René Rother and published by Devolver Digital. In each level, the player character are tasked to eliminate all enemies using one sniper rifle bullet, but players can reaim the bullet each time after it strikes its target. The game was released for Windows in April 2024.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 248 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~31/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 27,914 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 46k–103k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,297 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.04 at 2game (2025-11-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 42 of 71 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
42042020242026Week of 2024-04-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2102026-09-15 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 21 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 19 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 14 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 16 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 6 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
572Apr 2024Aug 2026Apr 2024 — avg 57 · peak 218May 2024 — avg 24 · peak 104Jun 2024 — avg 11 · peak 42Jul 2024 — avg 15 · peak 46Aug 2024 — avg 6 · peak 17Sep 2024 — avg 12 · peak 58Oct 2024 — avg 5 · peak 18Nov 2024 — avg 12 · peak 55Dec 2024 — avg 16 · peak 42Jan 2025 — avg 10 · peak 40Feb 2025 — avg 6 · peak 24Mar 2025 — avg 11 · peak 36Apr 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14May 2025 — avg 4 · peak 19Jun 2025 — avg 7 · peak 26Jul 2025 — avg 9 · peak 22Aug 2025 — avg 4 · peak 10Sep 2025 — avg 9 · peak 39Oct 2025 — avg 6 · peak 20Nov 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Dec 2025 — avg 7 · peak 21Jan 2026 — avg 5 · peak 27Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2026 — avg 6 · peak 23Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10May 2026 — avg 2 · peak 13Jun 2026 — avg 7 · peak 22Jul 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$5.042024-04-092026-09-072024-04-09 — best price $12.792024-06-17 — best price $11.992024-07-12 — best price $14.992024-08-05 — best price $11.992024-09-09 — best price $10.232024-09-29 — best price $14.992024-10-26 — best price $14.992024-11-25 — best price $8.992024-12-19 — best price $7.672025-01-16 — best price $14.992025-01-31 — best price $8.992025-02-14 — best price $8.992025-02-27 — best price $9.892025-03-19 — best price $8.992025-04-04 — best price $7.672025-04-18 — best price $7.492025-04-30 — best price $7.672025-05-29 — best price $7.492025-06-28 — best price $6.402025-07-24 — best price $7.492025-09-01 — best price $14.992025-09-15 — best price $14.992025-10-02 — best price $14.992025-10-24 — best price $7.492025-12-04 — best price $12.592026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-02-05 — best price $5.992026-03-05 — best price $5.992026-04-05 — best price $14.992026-04-23 — best price $5.992026-04-30 — best price $5.342026-05-05 — best price $5.342026-05-12 — best price $13.342026-05-28 — best price $14.992026-06-13 — best price $12.792026-07-21 — best price $14.992026-08-17 — best price $6.402026-09-07 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7472026-06-01 — 74 pageviews2026-06-05 — 30 pageviews2026-06-09 — 30 pageviews2026-06-13 — 31 pageviews2026-06-17 — 22 pageviews2026-06-21 — 22 pageviews2026-06-25 — 21 pageviews2026-06-29 — 20 pageviews2026-07-03 — 16 pageviews2026-07-07 — 19 pageviews2026-07-11 — 15 pageviews2026-07-15 — 14 pageviews2026-07-19 — 32 pageviews2026-07-23 — 17 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 7 pageviews2026-08-04 — 12 pageviews2026-08-08 — 23 pageviews2026-08-12 — 21 pageviews2026-08-16 — 13 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 11 pageviews2026-08-28 — 16 pageviews2026-09-01 — 17 pageviews2026-09-05 — 15 pageviews2026-09-09 — 16 pageviews2026-09-13 — 10 pageviews2026-09-17 — 9 pageviews2026-09-21 — 15 pageviews2026-09-25 — 8 pageviews2026-09-29 — 25 pageviews2026-10-03 — 21 pageviews2026-10-07 — 27 pageviews2026-10-10 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
95.2%
earned "A Vulture"
15%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-11-25 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,76317%21

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DDarkIndieActionArcadePuzzleShooterAssassinStrategyStylized

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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