Destination Sol

Destination Sol

MovingBlocks · 2015 · Free to Play, RPG, Indie, Action, Space

PC
Mixed50% · 12 📈 Making a comeback 78%3playing now
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About Destination Sol

✦ AI summary

Pilot a customizable fighter ship through a procedurally-generated star system where you'll explore planets, battle diverse enemies, hunt asteroids, and hire mercenaries to strengthen your crew. This hardcore arcade-RPG blends intense combat with deep progression systems and full freedom to forge your own path across two interconnected solar systems.

Destination Sol is an open-source, free-to-play hardcore arcade/RPG. You start as a pilot of a small fighter ship on the edge of a star system, and you're free to explore the game world, land on planets, fight with enemies, upgrade your ship and equipment, hire mercenaries, mine asteroids, and more.

Key Features:

  • Randomly generated open world, consisting of 2 star systems, planets, asteroid belts and mazes.
  • Ability to seamlessly land on planets.
  • 3 planet types.
  • Enemies of many different types, ally fighters, traders, outposts.
  • 6 ship types to pilot.
  • Over 50 items to equip -- weapons, shields, armor.
  • Open Source

Android version is also available on our web site.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jul 6, 2026
This game is broken AF! I can't find the space station and the little platforms don't appear on local radar until they're right next to you. I was docked and it hit a planet, then the shop screen disappeared and the camera stayed in place while it, and my ship left off screen. You have to exit to main to change your controls, half of which cannot be set to controller, and Resuming puts in a random spot, seemingly starting the game over as I lost the Pirate Gun from my inventory. Well enough though as I can't find how to equip anything.
Recommended May 7, 2026
Destination Sol strikes me as a bit incomplete. But what is there is pretty solid. If you have played Captain Forever or Asteroids, the basic gameplay here is sort of a mix of both. The game more or less consists of flying around in search of things to shoot. You can upgrade your ship by buying items or picking up items dropped by enemy ships, which are everywhere. There are also planets to fly around, which is pretty neat. There is not much variety though. A few systems, a few enemy types, and a few weapon types which all work fairly similarly. Rarely you may encounter certain items with special effects, but most items are simple. You can experience everything this game has to offer in a few hours. Other than the lack of content, the other big issue I have with this game is the music. It is loud, annoying, and lacks character in my opinion. Fortunately you can just turn it off. To be honest, I got bored with this one pretty quick, but it was fun for an hour or so, and it is free. So go ahead and give it a spin if you like.
Not recommended Apr 1, 2026
"Destination Sol" is unusual because you can't get any more ethically made games that open source! And this is an open source open world space flight trading/combat arcade game with pixelcrap graphics. It's understandably popular, open source games deserve more recognition. What do you do in the game? It's got a wide array of things you can do, it's no Star Control 2, but it's well fleshed out for an open source project. Trading, exploration, combat, and a great progression system where you can upgrade your ship. I might even go so far as to say if you really wanted to play a pixelcrap mobile app, this is the one to play. Maybe. This is a mobile app... it doesn't matter if this hit Steam Direct before the app stores rubberstamped it, or if it failed to even reach the app stores. This is built for the absolutely lowest of all gaming platforms and must be judged as such... it's not going to give you a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That detail alone is reason enough to reject this from any kind of recommendation to PC gamers. We don't invest thousands into bleeding edge gaming PCs so we can treat them like iPhones and play mobile apps. This features really godawful pi…
Recommended Mar 16, 2026
is cool. worth playing. got stuck in some stuff occasionally tho blegh :p
Not recommended Jan 17, 2026
---{ Graphics }--- 🔲 Awful ✅ Bad 🔲 Will do 🔲 Decent (Nothing special) 🔲 Stunning 🔲 Visual Masterpiece ---{ Gameplay }--- 🔲 Bad ✅ Okay 🔲 Nothing special 🔲 Good 🔲 Very good 🔲 Try not to get addicted ---{ Audio }--- ✅ Bad 🔲 Not too bad 🔲 Decent 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece ---{ PC Requirements }--- ✅ Potato 🔲 Decent 🔲 Fast 🔲 High-end PC 🔲 Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- 🔲 Just press a bunch of buttons 🔲 Easy 🔲 Significant brain usage ✅ Easy to learn / Hard to master 🔲 Difficult 🔲 Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ✅ Nothing to grind 🔲 Only if you care about 100% 🔲 Average grind level 🔲 Too much grind 🔲 Insanity ---{ Story }--- ✅ None/Not important in this game 🔲 Bad 🔲 Average 🔲 Great 🔲 Well written 🔲 One of the best i've had the pleasure of playing ---{ Price }--- ✅ Free 🔲 Worth the price 🔲 If it's on sale 🔲 Acceptable price 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money ---{ Bugs }--- 🔲 Never heard of ✅ Minor bugs 🔲 Can get annoying 🔲 The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ Game Time }--- 🔲 Very Short (0-5 hours) 🔲 Short (5-10 hours) 🔲 Average (10-30 hours) 🔲 Long (30-50 hours) 🔲 Extremely long (50-100+ h…
Recommended Dec 10, 2025
Solid tech demo / sandox. Good controls, weopon variety, music, atmosphere. World feels softly alive: meteors hitting the planets, trade ships popping by at random, miner's mining, cargo ships hauling, pirates pirating. No quests just at this point. Just roam around, shoot stuff, upgrade etc. There are occasional application crashes here and there.

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