- June 8, 2026
- Cyberwave
- 22h median play time
Solarpunk
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About Solarpunk
Solarpunk is a single player and multiplayer open world simulation game with a kids theme. It was developed by Cyberwave and was released on June 8, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and positive reviews from players.
Solarpunk is a survival game set in a technically advanced world of floating islands! Alone or together with your friends, construct buildings, grow food, create gadgets and guide your airship to new islands hidden in the sky!











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Reviews
- Relaxing, cozy atmosphere with beautiful art and sound design that creates a peaceful experience.
- Fun and rewarding building system with a lot of customization options and satisfying progression.
- Engaging farming, automation, and energy mechanics that are easy to grasp but offer depth for optimization.
- Gameplay can be repetitive and grind-heavy, with slow crop growth and frequent waiting periods impacting pacing.
- Multiplayer experience is limited by bugs, lack of shared progression, and inability to share airships.
- The game feels incomplete with few islands to explore, lack of story or NPC interaction, and missing quality-of-life features such as pause in single-player and inventory management improvements.
gameplay
352 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeGameplay in this game is generally described as relaxing, cozy, and easy to pick up, with satisfying building, crafting, and energy management mechanics that reward steady progression. However, many players find the loop repetitive and shallow, with slow and grindy resource gathering, limited content, and lack of meaningful long-term goals or variety beyond decorative expansions. Flying mechanics and multiplayer co-op are commonly criticized for being fiddly and restrictive, while bugs and quality-of-life issues occasionally disrupt the otherwise chill experience.
“The gameplay is genuinely fun, striking a great balance between relaxing sandbox play and thoughtful resource management.”
“The gameplay loop and progression stages all felt very satisfying, with each unlock building to the next and having to pop back and forth from island to island in the beginning, later replaced largely by automation was super fun.”
“The power draw and system automation mechanics are done so well.”
“This game is slow, clunky, has needlessly grindy mechanics and that's already in the first minutes.”
“The gameplay loop quickly settles into repetitive tasks like watering crops, harvesting hives, feeding animals, collecting ore, smelting materials, and waiting.”
“The flying mechanic in this game is the most frustrating interaction I have ever experienced in a cozy game.”
Critic Reviews
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Frequently Asked Questions
Solarpunk is a open world simulation game with kids theme. Common tags for Solarpunk include first-person, indie, exploration, gaming, cozy and others.
Solarpunk is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5, Windows and others.
On average players spend around 22 hours playing Solarpunk.
Solarpunk was released on June 8, 2026.
Solarpunk was developed by Cyberwave.
Solarpunk has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked Solarpunk for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.
Solarpunk is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.
Similar games include Aloft, Outbound, Len's Island, ASTRONEER, Lightyear Frontier and others.










