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Lords of the Black Sun cover art

Lords of the Black Sun

Arkavi Studios · Iceberg Interactive · 2014-09-12

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 12, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.

0
playing now
20%
positive of 395 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$24.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Lords of the Black Sun is a 4X turn-based strategy computer game created by Portuguese developer Arkavi Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive. It was made available as an early access game on Steam December 6, 2013 and was released on September 12, 2014.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 40% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.9k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 395 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2024-01-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 45 of 52 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$33.15$2.492015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $12.492015-04-22 — best price $10.002015-07-28 — best price $7.492016-01-15 — best price $22.992016-07-25 — best price $5.992017-01-12 — best price $5.992017-09-14 — best price $29.992018-02-19 — best price $29.992018-09-13 — best price $29.992018-12-14 — best price $4.922019-03-25 — best price $5.392019-07-26 — best price $5.992019-11-27 — best price $4.492020-03-25 — best price $26.992020-06-20 — best price $26.882020-07-28 — best price $22.042020-09-25 — best price $29.992020-11-24 — best price $26.882021-01-15 — best price $21.512021-03-11 — best price $4.792021-04-29 — best price $25.382021-06-24 — best price $5.392021-09-06 — best price $4.492021-11-22 — best price $3.592022-01-21 — best price $24.892022-04-26 — best price $25.382022-08-19 — best price $4.492022-12-02 — best price $29.992023-02-16 — best price $3.742023-07-17 — best price $4.492023-12-02 — best price $24.992024-04-06 — best price $27.562024-07-28 — best price $25.492024-10-24 — best price $5.242025-04-07 — best price $24.992025-11-20 — best price $20.992026-06-24 — best price $23.332026-08-24 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

902026-05-29 — 1 pageviews2026-06-02 — 1 pageviews2026-06-06 — 3 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1 pageviews2026-06-12 — 2 pageviews2026-06-15 — 1 pageviews2026-06-18 — 0 pageviews2026-06-21 — 2 pageviews2026-06-24 — 0 pageviews2026-06-27 — 1 pageviews2026-06-30 — 4 pageviews2026-07-04 — 1 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1 pageviews2026-07-18 — 1 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-24 — 1 pageviews2026-07-27 — 3 pageviews2026-07-30 — 2 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 4 pageviews2026-08-09 — 0 pageviews2026-08-12 — 1 pageviews2026-08-15 — 0 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1 pageviews2026-08-24 — 3 pageviews2026-08-26 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

4XIndieSpaceSci-fiStrategyAdventureTurn-BasedSingleplayerTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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