Close to the Sun

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App ID	968870
App Type	Game
Developer	Storm in a Teacup
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 ()

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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

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 ()

osarch

empty string

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)

library_assets

library_capsule	en
library_hero	en
library_logo	en
logo_position ↴
pinned_position	CenterCenter
width_pct	92.03739138618678
height_pct	100

review_score

review_percentage

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
SteamOS:
Valve is still working on adding support for this game on SteamOS
category: Unsupported
steamos_compatibility: Unsupported
test_timestamp: 8 April 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
tested_build_id: 5028615

configuration:

supported_input	gamepad
requires_manual_keyboard_invoke	0
requires_non_controller_launcher_nav	0
primary_player_is_controller_slot_0	1
non_deck_display_glyphs	0
small_text	0
requires_internet_for_setup	0
requires_internet_for_singleplayer	0
recommended_runtime	proton-stable
requires_h264	1
requires_voice_files	0
gamescope_frame_limiter_not_supported	0
hdr_support	0

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

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Assets

Load all asset images

clienticon

8510b6ad23a8ac35c642e708501b6ccaecf73f90

clienttga

bef78caf95af23503b28ec10c89243940b3fbbf9

icon

8dc88bb6cfb298aebd4f3b9102791daf4ad1c138

logo

55c5e72d4efa88990312cd64418d69350418558e

logo_small

55c5e72d4efa88990312cd64418d69350418558e_thumb

small_capsule

english

capsule_231x87.jpg

header_image

english

header.jpg

library_assets_full

library_capsule ↴
image/english	library_600x900.jpg
image2x/english	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero ↴
image/english	library_hero.jpg
library_logo ↴
image/english	logo.png
image2x/english	logo_2x.png
logo_position/pinned_position	CenterCenter
logo_position/width_pct	92.03739138618678
logo_position/height_pct	100

Assets

main_capsule	capsule_616x353.jpg
small_capsule	capsule_231x87.jpg
header	header.jpg
page_background	page_bg_generated_v6b.jpg
hero_capsule	hero_capsule.jpg
library_capsule	library_600x900.jpg
library_capsule_2x	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero	library_hero.jpg
community_icon	8dc88bb6cfb298aebd4f3b9102791daf4ad1c138.jpg
page_background_path	app/968870
raw_page_background	page_bg_raw.jpg
timestamp	22 May 2025 – 15:19:50 UTC

Trailers

256783960 ↴
trailer_name	Steam Launch Trailer
trailer_category	0
trailer_480p/video/webm	256783960/movie480_vp9.webm
trailer_480p/video/mp4	256783960/movie480.mp4
trailer_max/video/webm	256783960/movie_max_vp9.webm
trailer_max/video/mp4	256783960/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	256783960/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	256783960/microtrailer.mp4
screenshot_medium	256783960/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256783960/movie_full.jpg
trailer_base_id	282658
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1588597518
256781885 ↴
trailer_name	Launch Trailer
trailer_category	0
trailer_480p/video/webm	256781885/movie480_vp9.webm
trailer_480p/video/mp4	256781885/movie480.mp4
trailer_max/video/webm	256781885/movie_max_vp9.webm
trailer_max/video/mp4	256781885/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	256781885/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	256781885/microtrailer.mp4
screenshot_medium	256781885/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256781885/movie_full.jpg
trailer_base_id	278916
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1587141149
256736066 ↴
trailer_name	CTTS Gamescom 2018 trailer
trailer_category	0
trailer_480p/video/webm	256736066/movie480.webm
trailer_480p/video/mp4	256736066/movie480.mp4
trailer_max/video/webm	256736066/movie_max.webm
trailer_max/video/mp4	256736066/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	256736066/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	256736066/microtrailer.mp4
screenshot_medium	256736066/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256736066/movie_full.jpg
trailer_base_id	196788
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1568221180

Depots

ID	Configuration	Size	DL.
228986	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2015 Redist	No size
228987	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2017 Redist	No size
228990	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980DirectX Jun 2010 Redist	No size
968871	Windows Close to the Sun Content	20.36 GiB	19.82 GiB
1293590	UnusedClose to the Sun Original Soundtrack	No size
1293591	DLC 1293591Close to the Sun Artbook (1293591) Depot	102.28 MiB	84.81 MiB

Inner depots from DLC

ID	Configuration	Size	DL.
1293591	DLC 1293591Close to the Sun Artbook	102.28 MiB	84.81 MiB

Total size on disk is 20.56 GiB and total download size is 19.99 GiB.

Total size on disk is 20.36 GiB and total download size is 19.82 GiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name	Description	Build ID	Time Updated
public		5028615	14 May 2020 – 18:07:32 UTC

Other

Name	Value
baselanguages	English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Polish
hasdepotsindlc	1
privatebranches	1

Close to the Sun

Additional Information

Supported Languages

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Depots

Inner depots from DLC

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