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Destination Sol
Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“To sum up how I feel about this: "Why is this free?". I don't have much experience with free games, except for android apps which are riddled with ads (which this is obviously not). I can only assume this author wants to put their work out there and get people to play it, I…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“For me, finding this game was a bit like finding a coin lying in the street. For a freebie, its surprisingly fun. Though very simple in its presentation, it is still a lot of fun to play. The game has no story to it. The player is given a small spaceship, some basic equipment,…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Hard pressed to give this thumbs up or down. Depends on what you are looking for I guess. Looking for a game to impress and entertain you for hours at a time. Thumbs down. Looking for something in the indie market to see what other people are doing and seeing progress on an…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-03 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
2.1.0 Release
The 2.1.0 release is here! There isn't a great deal of new content in this release but a lot of work has been done behind the scenes to make the game much more stable and easier to develop. As with th
v2.0.0 Official Release
We're finally back with another release after three long years! The biggest thing to have happened in that time is the integration of the Gestalt framework. This means that: Modding is now much, much
v2.0.0 beta is here!
Check it out! Switch to the open beta branch and give the game a whirl! Beware that there are likely to be bugs, crashes and all sorts. Please note that you will not be able to continue an old game af
Yes, project is still alive, and might be in for a big community project :-)
For those not following on GitHub it is hard to stay up with development activity, one could even think the project has stalled, but that's far from reality :-) During summer of 2017 we had one Google
v1.4.1 - Misc quality of life fixes
Patch release with some recent fixes related to v1.4.0 and in general :-) Mercenaries now start with an appropriate weapon so they'll be helpful without an awkward weapon item throwing phase. Huzzah!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Indie, RPG, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Free to Play · RPG · Action · Indie · Space · Open World · 2D · Arcade · Singleplayer · Procedural Generation · Replay Value · Rogue-like (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://destinationsol.org/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Processor: 1 GHz or higher Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible Storage: 300 MB available space Sound Card: Any