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Solar Ash

Heart Machine · Annapurna Interactive · 2022-12-08

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 02, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 02, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Dec 02, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Sep 14, 2023 (Xbox One), Sep 14, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 14, 2023 (Nintendo Switch)

From the creators of the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter comes the high-speed and gravity-bending world of Solar Ash.

6
playing now
90%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (26 ratings)
8h
to beat · rushed 6h · completionist 9h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Solar Ash is an action-adventure platform game developed by Heart Machine and published by Annapurna Interactive. It was released on December 2, 2021 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Windows. It was also released via Steam on December 8, 2022, and it was released for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on September 14, 2023. The game's science fiction story explores themes of trauma and moving on from dramatic, devastating life events. It is set in the same fictional universe as Heart Machine's first and previous game, Hyper Light Drifter, but there are no direct connections between the two games' stories.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–68k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,502 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.59-76%
IndieGala$8.08-80%
Steam$9.99-75%
Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.75 at GameBillet (2026-06-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 95 of 121 observed days · $0.33 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1302026-08-11 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$6.812021-11-182026-08-302021-11-18 — best price $35.992022-11-01 — best price $39.992023-01-05 — best price $39.992023-02-11 — best price $30.652023-03-17 — best price $24.172023-04-29 — best price $25.992023-06-15 — best price $39.992023-07-20 — best price $19.842023-08-22 — best price $19.742023-10-13 — best price $20.742023-11-17 — best price $17.952023-12-22 — best price $23.992024-02-08 — best price $21.792024-03-07 — best price $19.992024-04-06 — best price $36.752024-05-06 — best price $30.592024-06-05 — best price $17.602024-07-11 — best price $15.992024-07-30 — best price $15.662024-08-19 — best price $34.812025-01-09 — best price $39.992025-03-15 — best price $16.002025-04-27 — best price $28.792025-07-10 — best price $10.592025-08-16 — best price $30.652025-10-06 — best price $13.802025-11-18 — best price $39.992026-01-05 — best price $39.992026-02-17 — best price $39.992026-03-25 — best price $39.592026-04-18 — best price $30.652026-05-21 — best price $7.892026-06-29 — best price $33.492026-07-31 — best price $6.812026-08-26 — best price $7.592026-08-30 — best price $8.08
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

84302026-05-31 — 84 pageviews2026-06-03 — 60 pageviews2026-06-06 — 54 pageviews2026-06-09 — 73 pageviews2026-06-12 — 53 pageviews2026-06-15 — 71 pageviews2026-06-18 — 38 pageviews2026-06-21 — 61 pageviews2026-06-24 — 40 pageviews2026-06-27 — 46 pageviews2026-06-30 — 49 pageviews2026-07-03 — 47 pageviews2026-07-06 — 56 pageviews2026-07-09 — 47 pageviews2026-07-12 — 45 pageviews2026-07-15 — 38 pageviews2026-07-18 — 42 pageviews2026-07-21 — 63 pageviews2026-07-24 — 43 pageviews2026-07-27 — 55 pageviews2026-07-30 — 36 pageviews2026-08-02 — 31 pageviews2026-08-05 — 46 pageviews2026-08-08 — 38 pageviews2026-08-11 — 43 pageviews2026-08-14 — 44 pageviews2026-08-17 — 55 pageviews2026-08-20 — 38 pageviews2026-08-23 — 56 pageviews2026-08-26 — 65 pageviews2026-08-28 — 40 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
93.2%
earned "Your Eyes Are Open"
33%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)7,5202%32
PS5 (PlayStation)1,52313%33
Steam (Steam)1,2178%32
PS4 (PlayStation)31720%33
Switch (Nintendo)260%0

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

Player tags

3DSpaceActionSci-fiSandboxColorfulAdventureFuturisticPlatformerAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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