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Sunshine Heavy Industries
Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“This is perfect. So simple, so elegant, so pleasant. Fulfill orders, build ships, make them look as stupid as you want, make them efficient, beautiful, cheap, ugly, extremely expensive, luxurious, whatever. Writing is also really great. Rocket Rat Games are REALLY talented, and…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“lovely music and art, the same amazing cozy writing i fell in love with playing cobalt core... and a nice little kick in the form of challenging yet fun puzzles! 11/10, theres also lesbians”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played“adorable and satisfying puzzle game, and the save system means you can pause literally whenever and take a break and come back to it delightful, wonderful, and only ever frustrating when i'm too tired to play it properly”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Cobalt Core!!!
Hello again, builders! Our new game, Cobalt Core , is out!!! If you liked Sunshine Heavy Industries' characters, music, aesthetic, or general vibe , we think Cobalt Core will be right up your alley. P
1.3.1 hotfix
v1.3.1 is a quick hotfix- only 2 of the 5 changes to the daily actually went live last update. (Whoops!) The rest are now live as well!
Anniversary Edition! 1.3.0! And our biggest sale ever!
Hello, builders! It's been ONE WHOLE YEAR since the launch of version 1.0, so we're celebrating with an update and our biggest sale ever- 40% off all week, starting 9 AM PST! Added anniversary party m
1.2.2
# 1.2.2 - Removed planets from gif export - Fixed main menu ships being offscreen sometimes - Fixed Wren's missing snoot in one sprite
Spooky version 1.2.0
Happy Halloween! Dracula is already a character in the game, so we can't get much spookier than that, but we tried anyway with a silly pumpkin mission. Achievements! Halloween mission! Tons of new bac
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Space · Sandbox · Building · Funny · Indie · Relaxing · Simulation · Comedy · Casual · 2D · Cute (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 6 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://sunshine-heavy-industries.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Anything, really Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Yes Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: Ideally