Close To The Sun
Skip · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x with 3GB Video RAM, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.39. That was May 2026. 47 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Apsulov: End of Gods ($19.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Morbid: The Seven Acolytes ($24.99, scores 27).
Critics scored it 66. Players sit 8 points higher at 74 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 528 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
51% start to 28% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 11:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is beautiful. The visual design of the ship is amazing; definitely cutting-edge for 1897. You want to stop playing the game and just look around where you are. I'd recommend playing one chapter per session. I recommend setting the Gamma to maximum so you can see a bit more. The keys seem to be W-A-S-D with Shift to sprint and Space to jump. Unfortunately these cannot be modified. Apart from that it is...
I'm really torn with this one, first of all I want to congratulate the design team, like wow! The esthetic pulls you right into the story which are the strong points for this game. Normally I don't really browse that much through the collectable story, but these really seemed to catch my eye, and gave a lot of expose in hindsight. Walking through this enormous ship that actually feels lived in, unreal engine 4 is...
This game is a horror walking simulator, and it isn't a particularly good one. It should not be calling itself an adventure game, because the puzzles are few and they are trivial; there's one early that literally has step-by-step instructions posted right above the puzzle, and the difficulty stays right around there. Most of what you will be doing is either running around looking for keys and other "hidden" items...
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Cite this score
Close To The Sun scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/968870/close-to-the-sunReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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