The Solus Project

Hourences · 2016 · $19.99 · Adventure · deal grade B

Measured on 2026-10-02 03:08 UTC, 4 days ago. The whole catalog is re-measured daily; a game that just launched can move fast between passes.

• Estimated net residual revenue: $243 to $364 per month
• Opportunity: $485 per month at x1.60 dormancy
• Estimated lifetime owners: 161.0k
• 80% positive across 2628 reviews · 2.8 reviews/month

Why it's flagged

• Developer silent for 8.4 years
• Studio inactive: no public activity across 1 tracked titles
• Last discounted 0 months ago, 1 sales in the last 12 months

Analyst notes (AI-assisted)

Note written 2026-09-14; the live figures above take precedence over any numbers in it.

A first-person sci-fi survival adventure focused on exploration and isolation across an alien world, built by a small Swedish team in 2016.

The Solus Project has held a modest but stable player base through word-of-mouth and maintains solidly positive sentiment (80% approval) with a meaningful lifetime footprint. It represents an uncommonly thoughtful survival experience pitched at a niche audience; the developer is inactive but the IP is unencumbered, and the game's design, procedural no, structured yes, still stands apart from the glut of open-world survival titles. For a publisher or studio seeking to acquire a catalog asset with genuine artistic credibility and low acquisition friction, this is a quiet opportunity to revive through porting, a limited fresh content pass, or bundling. Not a mainstream hit, but a title with legs. Most realistic play: acquisition.

• Risk: Built on 2016 tech stack; porting to console or modernizing for current engine versions requires engineering investment.
• Risk: Survival genre is crowded and player appetite has shifted; revival campaign must articulate a differentiated hook, not generic 'lost on an alien planet'.
• Risk: Developer (Hourences) and publisher (Teotl Studios) appear inactive; title has seen no discount campaigns in over 12 months and no studio posts in ~100 months, signaling minimal ongoing support infrastructure.

This case as Markdown · Estimates carry ±30-50% error per title.