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!

Close to the Sun is a adventure, indie and steampunk game developed by Storm in a Teacup and published by Wired Productions.
Released on May 05th 2020 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Hungarian.

It has received 1,113 reviews of which 823 were positive and 290 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Close to the Sun into these genres:

Adventure Indie Steampunk Walking Simulator Gore Female Protagonist Horror First-Person Violent Singleplayer Atmospheric Sci-fi

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Requirements

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Windows

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

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

This was a really fun game, i loved the style, aesthetic, and how well put together the world was. I would love to see more of this in a possible sequel that would expand upon what we saw in this game.

Aug. 2024

It is hard on this one. Sound is good. Audio dialog are more-or-less OK. Controls are clunky. It is fun to watch dropping/jumping - she fell, stop to stand, and then continues dropping. There are place to stuck (in the water, where the plank is - you can walk on plank and drop behind - and then you are doomed to stay there forever). Water sometimes decides not to stop you - you can run "fast". Checkpoints are crazy - sometimes you load checkpoint and die immediately (near the gigantic coil). So, there are plenty places to improvements. Sometimes there are hidden kind of green infinity signs, which does nothing. About story- it is not completed. After completing the game, it is till not clear what happened and how it ended. There are more and more open questions in the story, but almost none of them becomes answered. It was middle quality story with clumsy controls, where you haven't got any answers. I recommend this game only if you have nothing else to play.

July 2024

A deeply flawed game lacking a significant amount of polish. It draws heavily from Bioshock, but misses what makes Bioshock entertaining. Some things to note: You have a jump. It is literally pointless. It's like, a three inch vertical and actually slows you down when you land. There is no flashlight. The game is really dark at times, and the only solution is to bump gamma up to the maximum. This game falls into the trap where they put tech everywhere to fill void space, even when it's out of place. Why is there a four ton engine in a cafe? There is no crouch button. This game leans heavily on the Amnesia style "unable to fight back" trope and it squanders the enemy sections by making them simple chase sequences. The human models at a glance are passing decent, but the sheer ubiquity of corpses means you're going to see the same model over and over, sometimes in the same area. If you like an atmospheric walking sim that takes inspiration from Bioshock, this'll occupy about six hours of your time. But it's deeply flawed.

June 2024

Primarily a walking sim with a very few, easily solved puzzles and a small number of chase sequences where you have to run for your life. There are collectibles that you find along the way, none of which are truly difficult to find. The story is presented in 10 chapters and the game automatically saves at the end each each chapter. If you need to leave the game in the middle of the chapter, you'll restart at the beginning of that chapter. I was drawn to this game by it's premise and by the look of the ship in the trailer. I was not dissappointed. The design and presentation of the ship that you explore is visually captivating, the voice acting and music were appropriate, and the story was intriguing. A well presented, immersive experience. I am not a fan of horror and gore, and I was relieved that those elements weren't over-the-top in this game. There were a few mild jumpscares and a pervasive tense atmosphere. I was disappointed that many of the mysteries raised in the story never seem to get resolved by the end of the game. Overall I really enjoyed this game and will replay it just to fully explore the environment. Recommended for fans of walking sims looking for something a little different.

May 2024

It's like Bioshock where Rapture is the Nautilus from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen except with less dark satire of Atlas Shrugged and more Tesla vs. Edison feud, less genetic engineering science magic and more electrical arcing science magic, and all the dismembered and disemboweled corpses you could ever want but with no way to make more of them yourself. A walking simulator where you sometimes suddenly have to run for your life, which is still way better than QTE. It's a great first half of an entertaining story that will never get a second half. And don't even think about quitting in the middle of a chapter, because you won't have your progress saved. Not perfect but I had an enjoyable playthrough.

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19.99€

7.1

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Developer

Storm in a Teacup

Publisher

Wired Productions

Release 05 May 2020

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