Solar 2
Worth it · Action · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.84/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 2,238
- Critics
- 72 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 16.3h 6.3x the story
- Finish
- 2% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2013
- Sale every
- 95d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 52 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Learn to Fly 3 (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats SpaceEngine ($29.99, scores 57).
More about Solar 2
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 333 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 287 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
2.6 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
Solar 2 is a remarkably imaginative sandbox game that transforms the vastness of space into an interactive playground where players are not merely observers but an active part of the universe itself. Instead of controlling a spaceship or commanding an empire, the experience begins with a tiny celestial object that gradually evolves into planets, stars, and eventually complete solar systems. This unusual concept...
2 more reviews
cool game i first played years ago on another platform, has a native linux build
It looks like I never wrote a review for this little classic. You start as an asteroid and gather mass by smashing yourself into other asteroids to become a bigger asteroid up until you become a planet. Then, as a planet, you can pull asteroids in your orbit and absorb them to become a more advanced planet with life on it. If you get enough mass, you'll turn into a star. As a star, you can pull planets in you...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Solar 2 scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/97000/solar-2Reviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.