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The Red Solstice cover art

The Red Solstice

Ironward · 2015-07-09

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 09, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.

1
playing now
71%
positive of 2.6k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 16:00 UTC (census sample)

The Red Solstice is a tactical shooter, survival game, developed and published by Ironward for Windows. It entered early access in July 2014 and released on 10 July 2015. It is the first installment in The Red Solstice video game series. The Red Solstice had been in development for two and a half years. It uses an Ironward-created game engine, Razor.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 64k–154k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,559 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2022-06-23) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-08-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 16:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$0.002015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $19.992015-09-23 — best price $19.992015-12-22 — best price $14.992016-02-12 — best price $19.992016-06-23 — best price $7.992016-07-30 — best price $11.292016-09-13 — best price $6.792016-11-01 — best price $19.992017-01-12 — best price $4.992017-03-03 — best price $19.992017-06-22 — best price $5.992017-11-01 — best price $19.992018-01-04 — best price $19.992018-02-08 — best price $0.002018-04-20 — best price $24.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $1.492019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-07-10 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $2.492020-06-25 — best price $2.992020-11-25 — best price $3.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $2.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $0.992023-01-23 — best price $9.992023-06-15 — best price $0.992023-11-02 — best price $9.992024-02-06 — best price $0.992024-03-28 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-11-04 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-04-28 — best price $0.992025-08-18 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2212026-05-30 — 6 pageviews2026-06-02 — 11 pageviews2026-06-05 — 10 pageviews2026-06-08 — 10 pageviews2026-06-11 — 2 pageviews2026-06-14 — 6 pageviews2026-06-17 — 5 pageviews2026-06-20 — 7 pageviews2026-06-23 — 9 pageviews2026-06-26 — 6 pageviews2026-06-29 — 3 pageviews2026-07-02 — 22 pageviews2026-07-05 — 7 pageviews2026-07-08 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 12 pageviews2026-07-14 — 8 pageviews2026-07-17 — 7 pageviews2026-07-20 — 6 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1 pageviews2026-07-26 — 7 pageviews2026-07-29 — 4 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 7 pageviews2026-08-10 — 9 pageviews2026-08-13 — 8 pageviews2026-08-16 — 7 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 4 pageviews2026-08-27 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
25.5%
earned "M.E.R.C.S. Armor"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam Cloud3 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)12,2374%73

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

Player tags

RTSCo-opAliensSci-fiStrategyTacticalTop-DownReal-TimeAtmosphericKickstarter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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