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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Destination Sol strikes me as a bit incomplete. But what is there is pretty solid. If you have played Captain Forever or Asteroids, the basic gameplay here is sort of a mix of both. The game more or less consists of flying around in search of things to shoot. You can upgrade…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“is cool. worth playing. got stuck in some stuff occasionally tho blegh :p”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“"Destination Sol" is unusual because you can't get any more ethically made games that open source! And this is an open source open world space flight trading/combat arcade game with pixelcrap graphics. It's understandably popular, open source games deserve more recognition. What…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:01 UTC · history 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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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