The Solus Project
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$18.27Fair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 2,631
- Critics
- 68 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 18% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $18.27 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 13.7h
- To 100%
- 33.3h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 43
Price and sales
- Sales
- 28 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 October 2017
- Sale every
- 91d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 77% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
91% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 28 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Subnautica ($29.99, scores 93) outscores it, and so does Chernobylite Complete Edition ($29.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The Solus Project
Critics scored it 68. Players sit 12 points higher at 80 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 370 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 446 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.7 hours; clearing it takes 33, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The game doesn't look very good, and it feels overcomplicated in the wrong places. The story is slightly intriguing, but it unfolds through a lot of notes, and you have to wander through outdated-looking environments to find them. The inventory management feels clunky, and there aren't many crafting options. The game isn't pretty enough to recommend for its visuals, it isn't sci-fi enough to recommend to sci-fi...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
All you do is walk around trying to figure out stuff, very little crafting, few tools and hardly any explanations to anything!
The Solus Project is a first-person science-fiction adventure that places exploration, isolation, and environmental survival at the center of its experience. Developed by Hourences and Grip Games and published by Teotl Studios, the game presents a structured single-player journey rather than an endlessly open survival sandbox. Its strongest quality is the way it makes an alien planet feel genuinely unfamiliar and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Solus Project scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/313630/the-solus-projectReviews 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 Oct 18, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.