Heliopedia
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2021.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 215 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets. Find new species and make beautiful ecosystems . . . or breed destruction with volcanos, lightning storms and wildfires!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible with at least 500MB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
November 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 27 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Universe Sandbox ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats The Universim ($29.99, scores 58).
More about Heliopedia
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
95% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 04:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game made me realize that I was never meant to be a god, as only very basic life forms can survive under my care. The highest life forms I managed to sprout were three worms, one snake, and a singular banana tree entirely by chance. This game has some really cool vibes but they are hard to reach when every ecosystem I create collapses into mush.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Heliopedia is super addictive - one of those games where you sit down "just to try one more combination," and suddenly it's two hours later and your whole solar system is filled with weird creatures and floating mysteries. Every little discovery feels like a reward, and the game just keeps encouraging you to poke, mix, wonder, and smile. It's that perfect mix of relaxing and intriguing - no pressure, just pure...
Its kinda fun, but the mechanics are really hard to grasp. you can easily ruin a planet by mistake, and it is extremely hard to fix. there is no reset button either. and the only way to get rid of resources is to grab them and throw them into the sun. one by one. I'm going to try and finish it. and pieces of it are enjoyable. but there overall its been frustrating.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Heliopedia scores 69/100 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/1740070/heliopediaReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.