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Solar Flux

Firebrand Games · Pixel Games UK · 2013-10-24

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 24, 2013 (Mac), Dec 11, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 24, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 20, 2013 (Android), Jul 28, 2013 (iOS), Oct 24, 2013 (Linux)

Travel across the universe and save dying suns from extinction in this unique and challenging puzzle strategy game. You are the last hope to bring salvation to a perishing universe as you collect and deliver fragments of plasma using your omni-directional ship.

0
playing now
74%
positive of 307 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0/100
critic score (0 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 44% of 18,269 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 307 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Humble Store (2015-05-04) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 10 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 — 1 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 — 1 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 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 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 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

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-05-222015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-03-27 — best price $9.992015-06-18 — best price $6.542015-08-28 — best price $9.952016-01-04 — best price $2.482016-06-23 — best price $2.992016-10-18 — best price $7.992017-01-16 — best price $4.972017-05-15 — best price $9.952017-10-13 — best price $4.972017-12-28 — best price $1.002018-04-20 — best price $9.952018-09-13 — best price $9.992019-03-04 — best price $1.002019-12-23 — best price $9.992020-06-06 — best price $9.992020-06-27 — best price $8.282020-07-20 — best price $9.992020-08-10 — best price $9.992020-09-01 — best price $8.892020-09-24 — best price $9.992020-10-19 — best price $8.892020-11-12 — best price $9.992020-12-04 — best price $9.992020-12-26 — best price $8.382021-01-18 — best price $9.992021-02-09 — best price $9.992021-03-09 — best price $8.382021-04-01 — best price $9.992021-04-23 — best price $8.382021-05-16 — best price $9.992021-06-07 — best price $8.382021-12-02 — best price $9.992023-06-05 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $6.492026-01-13 — best price $9.992026-05-22 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

IndieSpacePuzzleStrategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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