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Sunshine Heavy Industries

Rocket Rat Games · 2021-08-17

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 11, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.

99%
positive of 433 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 33 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 11,116 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.7k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 433 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.09 at Steam (2025-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
474720212026Week of 2021-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$5.092021-05-112026-07-092021-05-11 — best price $14.992021-08-24 — best price $14.992021-11-01 — best price $14.992022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-07-07 — best price $14.992022-10-17 — best price $14.992022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-05-01 — best price $14.992023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-05-20 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-07-22 — best price $14.992024-09-02 — best price $14.992024-10-14 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-02-17 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-04-28 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

6
achievements tracked
58.3%
earned "Apogee"
13%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)29618%6

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

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyIndieSpaceCasualComedyPuzzleSandboxBuilding

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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