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Sunblaze cover art

Sunblaze

Games From Earth · Bonus Stage Publishing · 2021-06-03

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 03, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 03, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 03, 2021 (Mac), Jun 03, 2021 (Linux)

Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.

90%
positive of 486 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.49
steam price (US)

”Whose blood is that on the walls?” -Josie Do you think you’ve got what it takes to be an actual superhero? Well, then you need to help Josie to beat the superhero training simulator, and to become the hero our world needs! In this beautiful, hand-crafted precision platformer, you’ll play as Josie, aka. Sunblaze, with a mission to complete your superhero training. Your dad, a former superhero himself, built the training simulator dreaming of your journey to become a superhero. The simulator is full of puzzles, brain-tickling challenges, double jumps, dashes, spikes, drones... And a purrfect (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 39 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 28,633 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.7k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 486 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.49-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.49-90%
GOG$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2022-06-13) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 133 of 173 observed days · $0.49 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
737320212026Week of 2021-06-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.99$1.002021-06-032026-10-162021-06-03 — best price $11.472021-08-16 — best price $14.992021-11-24 — best price $10.042022-02-14 — best price $5.772022-05-23 — best price $14.992022-08-19 — best price $3.442022-11-04 — best price $14.992023-02-06 — best price $2.032023-05-15 — best price $16.992023-07-05 — best price $11.892023-11-21 — best price $7.492024-02-06 — best price $1.792024-04-19 — best price $11.892024-06-11 — best price $3.742024-07-29 — best price $3.742024-08-28 — best price $11.242024-10-26 — best price $14.992024-12-20 — best price $1.492025-02-05 — best price $14.992025-03-14 — best price $14.992025-04-15 — best price $1.492025-05-26 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-12 — best price $1.502025-10-07 — best price $1.492025-12-19 — best price $1.502026-01-26 — best price $14.992026-02-27 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-04-16 — best price $1.492026-05-14 — best price $11.242026-06-15 — best price $11.152026-07-20 — best price $14.992026-08-10 — best price $1.332026-08-22 — best price $1.492026-09-03 — best price $1.492026-09-15 — best price $1.492026-09-27 — best price $14.992026-10-09 — best price $14.992026-10-16 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
63.7%
earned "Chapter 1 Complete"
7.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-11-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9376%33
Switch (Nintendo)30%0
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyRetroActionPuzzleSuperheroControllerPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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