SolarGun
Skip · Short indie · 2017
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$7.99Skip
On its price record
$7.21Fair
- Length
- 2.3h 4.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.47/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 207 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.21 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2828 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
Discover SolarGun, a first-person puzzle game set in a aseptic factory. Use energy orbs, dodge lasers, and activate mechanisms to escape. With over 20 puzzles, hidden minigames, and a speedrun mode, every decision counts on your path to freedom.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 430/ AMD Radeon R5 240, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
13 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 404 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math Zup! 6 ($1.99, scores 89) and Oik 3 ($0.99, scores 72) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about SolarGun
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
15% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
As others have said (and as you can see for yourself) this is a first person puzzle platformer in the same vein as Portal and The Talos Principle. Visually, this is a good looking game and the environment reminds me of portal. It's mostly a futuristic industrial setting with some random rooms that look like parts of an office building. Most of the rooms are pretty minimalistic. Overall it's a pretty clean aesthetic...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
I have two of the "Year" levels left, and I don't think I'm going to finish it, but I've certainly played enough to warrant a review. While I did enjoy the game in general, I'm going to have to say "Not Recommended" because some parts were fun, but many more were unbelievably frustrating. While the description claims this is "a first person puzzle game", and the image says "Short Puzzle Platformer", it is much, much...
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Cite this score
SolarGun scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/553340/solargunReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.