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Solar Flux cover art

Solar Flux

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

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Solar Flux is a 2013 Indie and Strategy title priced at $9.99, with Mostly Positive sentiment (74% of 307 reviews) and an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners.

0
playing now
74%
positive of 307 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (16 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 49,704 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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 5 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320132026Week of 2013-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
360Oct 2013Nov 2020Oct 2013 — avg 5 · peak 19Dec 2013 — avg 3 · peak 14Feb 2014 — avg 2 · peak 44Apr 2014 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2014 — avg 2 · peak 9Aug 2014 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2014 — avg 3 · peak 10Dec 2014 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2015 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2015 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2016 — avg 15 · peak 939Apr 2016 — avg 11 · peak 115Jun 2016 — avg 5 · peak 40Aug 2016 — avg 2 · peak 12Oct 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Dec 2016 — avg 6 · peak 227Feb 2017 — avg 3 · peak 90Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2017 — avg 3 · peak 79Dec 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 2Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Nov 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
34.3%
earned "TRAINING SECTOR"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,8984%32
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

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

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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