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Crying Suns cover art

Crying Suns

Alt Shift · 2019-09-18

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IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 27, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 18, 2019 (Mac), Sep 18, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 25, 2020 (iOS), Jun 25, 2020 (Android)

Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

15
playing now
86%
positive of 4.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
59/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

15 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Crying Suns is a 2019 roguelike strategy video game developed by Montpellier-based developer Alt Shift and published by Humble Bundle. The protagonist, space admiral Ellys Idaho, awakes in a cloning facility decades after the interstellar empire he fought for has collapsed, and travels the empire's galaxy in a battleship in search of answers why. The game is split into six chapters, with three sectors each; Idaho and his crew travel through each sector and its star systems to reach the sector exits while staying ahead of a pursuing threat. During the course of their travels, players battle other battleships in pausable real-time.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 15 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 112 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (388 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 18,047 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 114k–273k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,542 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$24.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at IndieGala Store (2026-05-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 62 of 96 observed days · $20.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32732720192026Week of 2019-09-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2102026-08-07 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 15 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 20 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 19 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 14 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 11 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 16 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 15 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$0.002019-09-192026-08-302019-09-19 — best price $24.992020-01-24 — best price $18.692020-06-09 — best price $20.202020-08-12 — best price $24.992020-09-19 — best price $24.992020-10-22 — best price $22.392021-01-07 — best price $0.002021-04-30 — best price $12.492021-08-13 — best price $9.892021-10-21 — best price $9.692021-12-09 — best price $9.992022-02-02 — best price $24.992022-05-03 — best price $21.512022-06-24 — best price $8.742022-08-10 — best price $21.242022-10-29 — best price $6.392022-12-19 — best price $8.742023-02-10 — best price $8.742023-04-14 — best price $24.992023-06-16 — best price $24.992023-08-18 — best price $7.492023-11-07 — best price $24.992024-01-04 — best price $24.992024-02-25 — best price $24.992024-05-01 — best price $24.992024-06-18 — best price $24.992024-08-26 — best price $24.992024-12-07 — best price $24.992025-02-12 — best price $7.492025-07-12 — best price $24.992025-11-05 — best price $24.992026-01-23 — best price $7.492026-05-13 — best price $19.672026-07-21 — best price $7.492026-08-29 — best price $24.992026-08-30 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3562026-05-29 — 22 pageviews2026-06-01 — 25 pageviews2026-06-04 — 21 pageviews2026-06-07 — 21 pageviews2026-06-10 — 17 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-16 — 16 pageviews2026-06-19 — 19 pageviews2026-06-22 — 23 pageviews2026-06-25 — 13 pageviews2026-06-28 — 15 pageviews2026-07-01 — 16 pageviews2026-07-04 — 15 pageviews2026-07-07 — 20 pageviews2026-07-10 — 15 pageviews2026-07-13 — 11 pageviews2026-07-16 — 6 pageviews2026-07-19 — 18 pageviews2026-07-22 — 15 pageviews2026-07-25 — 13 pageviews2026-07-28 — 15 pageviews2026-07-31 — 12 pageviews2026-08-03 — 14 pageviews2026-08-06 — 18 pageviews2026-08-09 — 20 pageviews2026-08-12 — 6 pageviews2026-08-15 — 20 pageviews2026-08-18 — 10 pageviews2026-08-21 — 17 pageviews2026-08-24 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 18 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
77.7%
earned "The Shutdown"
15.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,6190%79
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

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

Player tags

2DIndieSpaceSci-fiStrategyTacticalRogue-likeRogue-liteStory RichPerma Death

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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