Sunshine Heavy Industries
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.06.
- Length
- 7.5h 10.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 434 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.06 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Yes, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 27 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 10 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $10.06, a level the record has reached 21 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Learn to Fly 3 (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats shapez 2 - Factory ($17.99, scores 65).
More about Sunshine Heavy Industries
This site sampled 304 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
58% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Sunshine Heavy Industries, developed and published by Rocket Rat Games, is a deceptively thoughtful puzzle-builder that turns spaceship engineering into a relaxed but deeply engaging design exercise. At first glance it presents itself as a light construction game, asking you to assemble small spacecraft from modular parts, but the experience quickly reveals a careful balance between creative freedom and...
2 more reviews
adorable and satisfying puzzle game, and the save system means you can pause literally whenever and take a break and come back to it delightful, wonderful, and only ever frustrating when i'm too tired to play it properly
lovely music and art, the same amazing cozy writing i fell in love with playing cobalt core... and a nice little kick in the form of challenging yet fun puzzles! 11/10, theres also lesbians
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Sunshine Heavy Industries scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1542810/sunshine-heavy-industriesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.