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Close to the Sun

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App ID 968870
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Wired Productions
Franchise Wired Productions
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 29129831
Last Record Update 22 May 2025 – 15:19:54 UTC ()
Release Date 5 May 2020 – 14:03:39 UTC ()
😏 71.03%
1k reviews
2
In-Game

Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Additional Information

Developer Storm in a Teacup
metacritic_name Close to the Sun
controller_support full
metacritic_score 66
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/close-to-the-sun?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
community_visible_stats Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Wired Productions
Store Release Date 5 May 2020 – 14:03:50 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Indie (23)
Store Genres Adventure (25), Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 5 May 2020 – 14:03:39 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 22 May 2025 – 15:19:41 UTC () (1747927181)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, CEF SDK, NVIDIA_APEX SDK, NVIDIA_Ansel SDK, NVIDIA_Nsight_Aftermath SDK, NVIDIA_PhysX SDK, NvCloth SDK, OculusXRPlugin SDK, Ogg SDK, Vorbis SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck
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  • SteamOS:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on SteamOS
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  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Unsupported
  • test_timestamp: 8 April 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 5028615
  • configuration:
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    requires_voice_files0
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
First seen on SteamDB 22 October 2018 – 09:16:32 UTC (), in changelist #5259197
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

11 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes
Hungarian Yes Yes

Tags

🗺️ Adventure 🌱 Indie 🧷 Steampunk 🚶 Walking Simulator 😖 Gore 👩 Female Protagonist 😱 Horror 🙌 First-Person 👊 Violent 👤 Singleplayer 🌫 Atmospheric 🚀 Sci-fi

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Cloud Remote Play on TV Family Sharing Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Assets

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Steam charts

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  • 2 players right now
  • 3 24-hour peak
  • 89 all-time peak 6 May 2020
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Store data

  • 5,125 followers
  • 868 positive reviews
  • 307 negative reviews
  • 73.87% positive reviews

Twitch stats

  • 0 viewers right now
  • 58 24-hour peak
  • 26,494 all-time peak
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User reviews history

  • 😏 Mostly Positive
  • 71.03% SteamDB Rating
  • 868 73.9% positive reviews
  • 307 26.1% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
5 May 2020 – 14:03 Steam Release -
4 November 2020 – 16:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Killer Bundle 14 -
25 January 2021 – 16:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Reaper Bundle 8 -
8 April 2021 – 15:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own All Stars Bundle -
23 July 2021 – 05:00 ⇄ Green Man Gaming: XP Pack Summer 2021 -
26 July 2021 – 15:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own All Stars Bundle 3 -
9 November 2022 – 16:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Birthday Mystery Bundle -
5 December 2022 – 16:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Epic Quest Bundle -

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How many players are playing Close to the Sun right now on Steam?

Steam player counter indicates there are currently 2 players live playing Close to the Sun on Steam.

Close to the Sun had an all-time peak of 89 concurrent players on 6 May 2020.

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