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  • Summary: Stranded on a deserted alien planet and with your home planet of Earth on the brink of destruction, The Solus Project challenges you to survive the harsh, volatile environment and find a way to send a signal back home. Confronted with merciless weather, and danger lurking around everyStranded on a deserted alien planet and with your home planet of Earth on the brink of destruction, The Solus Project challenges you to survive the harsh, volatile environment and find a way to send a signal back home. Confronted with merciless weather, and danger lurking around every corner, the player must save the human race while unraveling the deep secrets of the seemingly deserted alien civilization. Are you alone on the planet…?… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 26
  3. Negative: 2 out of 26
  1. Hooked Gamers
    Jul 1, 2016
    90
    Survival games seem to be a dime dozen recently, but The Solus Project is doing enough differently to earn its place in gamers’ libraries.
  2. COGconnected
    Jun 18, 2016
    85
    It was a wonderful surprise to find out how good the game was and how quickly I became engrossed it. You really feel like a solitary stranger in a strange land. This one has tons of atmosphere.
  3. The Games Machine
    Jul 5, 2016
    80
    An incredible and endearing journey through the mysteries of the alien planet Gliese-6143-C, the last hope for mankind. There are some problems with the interface and the writers drags the last chapter a little bit out, but overall it's a journey worth being experienced.
  4. Vandal Online
    Jun 28, 2016
    75
    It has its ups and downs, but in general is a interesting adventure that fans of the genre will enjoy.
  5. We Got This Covered
    Jun 6, 2016
    70
    Despite mechanical discord and an unsatisfying story, the creepy atmosphere and gargantuan spectacle of The Solus Project is worth experiencing firsthand.
  6. Gameblog.fr
    Sep 15, 2016
    60
    The Solus Project is a mix between wonderment and disappointment. The artistic direction is awesome and the atmosphere has been fine tuned, but the survival mechanics are not deep enough.
  7. 4Players.de
    Jul 22, 2016
    37
    It wants to be a survival tale. It wants to be a storytelling experience – but in the end it is neither. The survival aspect is one-dimensional, while the rest of the content seems disconnected. [Tested with Rift and Vive]

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. simesi
    Aug 23, 2016
    9
    This is a particular game, if you don't love the exploration don't buy it.
    IMO I loved everything in this game: the atmosphere, the music,    This is a particular game, if you don't love the exploration don't buy it.
    IMO I loved everything in this game: the atmosphere, the music, the caves, the weather, the story.
    This was a really emotional adventure and I was searched for it    … Expand
  2. Jo0ker
    Aug 21, 2016
    7
    Ok, I playied the game the whole story.. enjoyied a lot the planet, the sun.. the alternates of night and day.. the atmosphere is soOk, I playied the game the whole story.. enjoyied a lot the planet, the sun.. the alternates of night and day.. the atmosphere is so beautiful! The story is good, intriguing.. I need a version in my language to understand better all the story again and the details, but is good.
    The bad part is.. I playied all the game, some crashs happened, but my enthusiasm in the game has not shaken.. so I came at the end, and.. Go to finish the game and the story.. but, 1 missing Tower part! It's not in the initial island and how I came back? the game crash when I go back.. I tryied so many solutions of errors.. nothing. Send to the producer on facebook an message, only readed and don't giving a **** for gamers. That's why 7, loved the game and story.. but I have to see the end on youtube and that's a little disappointing.    … Expand
  4. Tomle1202
    Jul 4, 2016
    6
    Telling the story of a lone person struggles to survive in the strange, hazardous environments of a forgotten planet, The Solus Project offersTelling the story of a lone person struggles to survive in the strange, hazardous environments of a forgotten planet, The Solus Project offers quite some thrilling moments. The bad thing is that they exist only in the first thirty minutes.… Expand
  5. Indrigis
    Jun 13, 2016
    4
    The Solus Project claims to be a survival experience, but survival is not much of a problem. Food and water are abundant, a solution to coldThe Solus Project claims to be a survival experience, but survival is not much of a problem. Food and water are abundant, a solution to cold weather (aka night) is to take a good 10-hour nap, and during lengthy thunderstorms lightning will consistently hit you for 20% of your health regardless of cover. Although there are only a handful of patrolling enemies, traps are plentiful but, again, simplistic and only hidden by darkness.

    The hero's greatest enemy is the game designer. Although the game is set in the 22nd century, one of the two most useful pieces of human technology available to the player is a metal tube covered in some alien roots and soaked in rocket fuel. This creates a torch that heats the player, lights up the surroundings and burns forever (seriously, it's permanent. It never requires more alien roots or fuel). The other useful piece of technology is a personal teleporter, borrowed in its entirety from Unreal Tournament. Apart from that there's no long range optics, no radar or local map, nothing that would be fitting for an interstellar planetary explorer. At least there's a PDA which can scan objects in the world, providing helpful hints like "Rock, heavy, multi-purpose" (useful for putting on buttons) and "metal tube, tool, very good!" (two required across the entire playthrough) and translate alien writings on the walls.

    However, all of that could be forgiven for a good plot or decent exploration. The Solus Project has neither. The plot is extremely straightforward and, regrettably, disconnected from the gameplay. No matter how many tablets you decipher, the protagonist never acknowledges that in his/her reports and acts as if he/she never knew what was going to happen. The exploration is tedious and mostly useful for artifacts (+1% to some resistance) and vanity items, having no real influence on the survival part.

    As a first attempt at making a game, The Solus Project is quite decent. But even in that price category there are better, much more polished and interesting games.    … Expand

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