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SolarGun
Discover SolarGun, a first-person puzzle game set in a aseptic factory. Use energy orbs, dodge lasers, and activate mechanisms to escape. With over 20 puzzles, hidden minigames, and a speedrun mode, every decision counts on your path to freedom.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
34 of the 91 reviews raise this.
“a very cool little puzzle game. you use light orbs to help you traverse areas and open doors. the graphics are great and the puzzles are very cool. i highly recommend this game especially for the price.…”
“Follow our curator page "First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games" for more games like this! It feels like an alpha version of Portal. It's rough around a lot of its edges, but the puzzles (the most important part) are…”
“SolarGun strikes me as a Portal imitation, but a little less developed with the movements and verticality physics. Despite this, I enjoyed playing the game and all the puzzles and mind games it had to offer. The…”
24 of the 91 reviews raise this.
“a very cool little puzzle game. you use light orbs to help you traverse areas and open doors. the graphics are great and the puzzles are very cool. i highly recommend this game especially for the price.…”
“Follow our curator page "First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games" for more games like this! It feels like an alpha version of Portal. It's rough around a lot of its edges, but the puzzles (the most important part) are…”
“Damn! This is portal-like puzzle game for only a freacking €! FFS get this game ASAP, best discovery of the year by far.”
9 of the 91 reviews raise this.
“a very cool little puzzle game. you use light orbs to help you traverse areas and open doors. the graphics are great and the puzzles are very cool. i highly recommend this game especially for the price.…”
“SolarGun strikes me as a Portal imitation, but a little less developed with the movements and verticality physics. Despite this, I enjoyed playing the game and all the puzzles and mind games it had to offer. The…”
“Quite an interesting and unusual "chasing a quest". In soulless gray-black-blue rooms you find yourself almost the only keeper of light that can "melt the ice" of another antipodal (in terms of colour) energy. Video…”
7 of the 91 reviews raise this.
“SolarGun strikes me as a Portal imitation, but a little less developed with the movements and verticality physics. Despite this, I enjoyed playing the game and all the puzzles and mind games it had to offer. The…”
“Solid Puzzle game. Entertained me really well for 2h. Of course it's not a Portal game but it only costs 1$ and the gameplay well thought through with a nice difficulty progression. Developers have a great first game…”
“Great game, really challenging and nice for some afk time and no internet, really liked the mechanics and how the game developed, got the game for free but i would pay for it ;)”
5 of the 91 reviews raise this.
“Quite an interesting and unusual "chasing a quest". In soulless gray-black-blue rooms you find yourself almost the only keeper of light that can "melt the ice" of another antipodal (in terms of colour) energy. Video…”
“Very nice little game. For 1$ it will keep you entertained for about an hour or more depending on how good you are with the puzzles so stop reading this review and go try it.”
“A good quality 3D puzzle platformer I got this free from brightlocker.com I have 7.1 hours in this game. Most of that time were spent on trying to figure how to do that last two puzzles. Thanks Kinkss on speedrun.com…”
13 of the 91 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Uninteresting, easy, poorly-designed puzzles in addition to frustrating controls and questionable decisions. The Turing Test is the same design but much better. Nobody could call it overpriced, but it wasn't worth my…”
“boring game. terrible movement with keyboard controls.”
“This feels, most of all, like an alpha version of The Turing Test. There are so many little problems with this game: 1) Firing orbs takes time. This removes the sense of "I click at that location, and the orb…”
10 of the 91 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“SolarGun strikes me as a Portal imitation, but a little less developed with the movements and verticality physics. Despite this, I enjoyed playing the game and all the puzzles and mind games it had to offer. The…”
“Uninteresting, easy, poorly-designed puzzles in addition to frustrating controls and questionable decisions. The Turing Test is the same design but much better. Nobody could call it overpriced, but it wasn't worth my…”
“boring game. terrible movement with keyboard controls.”
6 of the 91 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Great puzzle game for just 1$. Talos principle/Portal idea but shorter. It will take you about one hour to finish it, so if you have spare time , get the game.”
“The game is funny, short, but funny. Only cost 0,99$ so i recommended to buy if you love games like portal (puzzle games). Pledge for new developers. Congrats to Mechanical Boss.”
“Decent for a dollar. I'd say it's a cool game, a few bugs here and there, but playtime is about an hour.”
6 of the 91 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Interesting concept but felt poorly executed. It wasn't very fun for me. Lacked a decent tutorial and more tells/cues/better feedback on the various interactions. Learning by trial and error didn't feel worth it.…”
“Imagine a kind of really bad and simple puzzle Portal game where you run through company rooms like in The Stanley Parable for no reason. So not fun.”
“Solar Gun is a minimalistic puzzle game that brings back memories of Portal. No, there isn't really a story to the game. No, the graphics and soundtrack are nothing fancy. The puzzles are well thought out, if a little…”
5 of the 91 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Uninteresting, easy, poorly-designed puzzles in addition to frustrating controls and questionable decisions. The Turing Test is the same design but much better. Nobody could call it overpriced, but it wasn't worth my…”
“Interesting concept but felt poorly executed. It wasn't very fun for me. Lacked a decent tutorial and more tells/cues/better feedback on the various interactions. Learning by trial and error didn't feel worth it.…”
“Portal but worse. The accuracy needed for the platforming parts is pretty frustrating: if you're not exactly on the platform above the white toxic thing / behind the wall protecting you from lasers, you will die. Some…”
Counted across 91 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 83.6% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“As others have said (and as you can see for yourself) this is a first person puzzle platformer in the same vein as Portal and The Talos Principle. Visually, this is a good looking game and the environment reminds me of portal. It's mostly a futuristic industrial setting with…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Thanks to the developer and publisher at Mechanical Boss for a really solid puzzle game for me to escape and enjoy. Eighty-nine cents. Eighty-nine cents is what i paid for this entertainment and I feel like i stole the game. Yes, to be fair, it's simply a Portal, Chromagun,…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“It's short (2 hours-ish) and it costs one dollar (or less)! Yeah, there are better and more acclaimed puzzle games like Portal, Quern, Talos Principle, etc. No one will ever be impressed to hear you beat SolarGun. But Mechanical Boss honestly wouldn't care. My impression is that…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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SolarGun Year Edition now on Steam
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Good News!
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Patch 1.1
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Casual · Puzzle-Platformer · Sci-fi · Short · First-Person · Puzzle (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese - Portugal, French, German |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 8 |
| Official site | https://studios.ggtech.gg/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64bits Processor: Intel Celeron G1820 / AMD Athlon II X3 455 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430/ AMD Radeon R5 240 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 1 GB available space