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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.

Lords of the Black Sun is a 2014 Indie and Strategy title priced at $24.99, with owners estimated between 100,000 and 200,000 and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (20% of 395 reviews).

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (72 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 50,072 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 9.9k–24k copies

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

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

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 39 of 45 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
616120132026Week of 2013-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 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 pageviews2026-06-03 — 4 pageviews2026-06-08 — 2 pageviews2026-06-12 — 2 pageviews2026-06-16 — 0 pageviews2026-06-20 — 2 pageviews2026-06-24 — 0 pageviews2026-06-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-03 — 7 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1 pageviews2026-07-17 — 0 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 9 pageviews2026-08-11 — 1 pageviews2026-08-15 — 0 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-23 — 0 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews2026-08-31 — 1 pageviews2026-09-04 — 3 pageviews2026-09-09 — 1 pageviews2026-09-13 — 0 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-21 — 2 pageviews2026-09-25 — 5 pageviews2026-09-29 — 0 pageviews2026-10-03 — 4 pageviews2026-10-07 — 0 pageviews2026-10-08 — 0 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
64.8%
earned "BOOTGAME"
24.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3241%15

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

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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