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Close To The Sun
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Take some heavy inspiration from Bioshock & Wolfenstein, add in a female main character, take an overused Tesla-maniacal cliche, make it mainly a walking sim, and take away the ability to fight, and you pretty much have [b]Close to the Sun[/b]. The graphics are nicely done, the…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“There's heaps of walking simulators out there but this one caught my attention thanks to its closeness to original Bioshock. It takes place aboard massive cruise ship but otherwise it's pretty much the same - you're walking around dated era interiors with futuristic elements,…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“sorry but the chase sequence at the end of chap3 came right out of left field - repeated several times until the 6th attempt when the game crashed. And when I went back into the game, I was back at the start of chap3. Rage-quit.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:46 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Indie · Steampunk · Walking Simulator · Female Protagonist · Gore · Horror · First-Person · Violent · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Hungarian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 27 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.closetothesungame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Core i5 / AMD FX 2.4Ghz Memory: 8 GB RAM GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 3GB Video RAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 50 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible