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.

Sunshine Heavy Industries is a puzzle, space and sandbox game developed and published by Rocket Rat Games.
Released on August 17th 2021 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 372 reviews of which 368 were positive and 4 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Sunshine Heavy Industries into these genres:

Puzzle Space Sandbox Building Funny Indie Relaxing Simulation Comedy Casual 2D Cute Colorful Singleplayer Pixel Graphics Sci-fi Aliens Spaceships Early Access Great Soundtrack

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Anything, really
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Yes
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: Ideally

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Sunshine Heavy Industries is a 2D puzzle game where you are a spaceship designer tasked with building new spaceships for a variety of clients. The game was released by indie developer Rocket Rat in 2021. The premise itself is fun enough, but a layer of funny and sweet writing is stacked on top that makes the game a real pleasure to play. Each level involves a client coming to you with the specifications for their spaceship, and sometimes an existing ship for you to modify. You then use a catalog of parts to meet their requirements - expand their cargo space, increase their thrust, give them more weapons, etc. All while working within the budget that they’ve provided. Any budgeted money that’s left over can be spent to buy more parts for your catalog. As the game goes on a greater variety of parts is introduced, but so are different restrictions. You’ll have “dirty” components that leak radiation and can’t overlap crewed components, or communications equipment and weapons that need to be on the exterior of the ship, or you might be limited in terms of the changes you can make to the original ship. The gameplay is interesting and does force you to think at points while still giving you flexibility to find different possible solutions.There’s one or two puzzles that are looking for a specific solution, but they are extremely rare. On top of the enjoyable gameplay, the writing and art and music are all very pleasant and cute. The writing made me laugh many times, and there are a number of recurring clients that have funny and sometimes poignant storylines. The art is a cartoony, pixellated style and the music provides a soothing background of electronic bells and chimes. Sunshine Heavy Industries currently costs 14.99 USD at full price, and it took me about 10 hours to complete the game. Once the game is completed, you can continue to play randomly generated jobs for clients and participate in daily jobs on a leaderboard against other players Overall it’s a great game - great gameplay, great writing, great art and music and the kind of novel concept and execution I love coming across. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the game, and if you’re interested please follow my Steam Curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45265204/]Hidden Gem Highlights for reviews of lesser known titles like this of all genres.

Sept. 2024

Sunshine Heavy Industries is a great ship builder with a story to play through as you meet different customers. The cast of characters are all pretty lightly fleshed out but each completed contract gives you a little more about them, as well as adding parts to your inventory that can be used going forward. The daily ship challenges are a great additional feature that presents puzzles to solve with parts you may not have used before. Plus these folks show up again in the game Cobalt Core!

Aug. 2024

It's a low stakes chill game that lets you build starships. You're given general directions (this much thurst, this much manueverability, this much firepower) and then pretty much complete freedom to build it however you want. Missions are engaging but not particularly challenging. There aren't timed challenges and the budget restrictions are fairly generous so you can choose how hard you want it to be. If you want to compete on the leaderboards however you need to be absolutely diabolical in how you design your ship but outside of daily challenges you have a lot of freedom.

July 2024

On the surface I played this game to maximize profits and unlock parts. Deeper in I realized I was playing to see more characters and dialogue. At this point all I do is make ships into funny shapes, profits be damned. I may advise catching it on sale as it's not a very deep game; but it is a fun one none the less.

May 2024

This dev is just so good. After 10 hours in Cobalt Core, I just picked up Sunshine Heavy, and it’s the same extremely perfect pixel graphics, hilarious and adorable writing, and solid enjoyable gameplay. Highly recommended.

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12.49€

9.1

368

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Developer

Rocket Rat Games

Publisher

Rocket Rat Games

Release 17 Aug 2021

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