The Solus Project
A single player exploration driven adventure with survival elements, set on a mysterious and seemingly uninhabited alien planet. Survive through exploration, and unlock the mysteries of Gliese-6143-C. From the creators of “Unmechanical” and successor to “The Ball”.
Earth has been destroyed and mankind lingers on in a small fleet of ships near Pluto. As humanity’s last hope, you are sent to scout a distant planet as a potential location for a colony. After years of space travel disaster strikes however, and your ship is destroyed when approaching the planet…
With your team members dead and your equipment gone you have no way of communicating or receiving help from anyone… you are completely and utterly alone…
Desperately you look for a way of phoning home, but as you explore the seemingly desolate planet, you uncover the dark secrets buried within the depths. In this otherworldly odyssey you uncover mystery upon mystery as you try to survive the harsh climate.
FEATURES
- Explore – Unlock the depths of the uncharted planet, and discover the secrets buried deep below. Delve into huge cave systems and tombs and uncover over 200 secrets.
- Handcrafted – 10 large entirely handcrafted levels to explore. Explore and puzzle your way through 5 islands and 5 large tombs/caves.
- Atmosphere – Atmosphere rich environment that is fully dynamic. An alien day and night cycle and a dynamic weather system that calculates everything from temperature, wind, humidity, cloud coverage impact on the climate and so on. It handles ocean tides. Plants respond to the climate. Storms form. Earthquakes happen.
- Survive – Survive the extreme climate, tornadoes, storms, meteors, lightning, and not least the dark secrets buried beneath the surface.
- VR – Supports Vive and Oculus, including room space and motion controllers. Explore the huge world start to end in VR! (*Some VR features are still in development – see notes at the bottom for info)
The Solus Project Review
Excellent game, one of my new favorites for exploration/puzzles in first person. The storyline moves really well, the graphics and textures are on point. The first ten minutes can be a little daunting as you understand how to combine items and how the game’s flow is going to be but after that it carries onward. If you aren’t interested in storylines you might not find this as good just from a puzzle perspective. There’s no combat at any point, either. It plays a little like Amnesia but somehow feels like Portal 2 in terms of the atmosphere. I haven’t found nearly all the locations and “secrets” that are in the game yet, as I was driven to complete it and understand the full story. The story itself is something unique and interesting, not much can be said about it without giving too much away though.
The controls all made sense and managing health/thirst/hunger/sleep seems daunting at first but is manageable once you realize where the game is going to put resources for you. The only bug I encountered was with the inventory. Sometimes the inventory would disappear when you move your mouse and you’d have to do this multiple times before you could actually switch items. You can use the keyboard to do this too, but in some situations time was of the essence.
The only negative part of the game is the male protagonist’s voice acting. It’s just terrible all-around. The quality of the voice isn’t the issue as much as his acting, which is disjointed and awkward sounding. The character speaks probably less than ten times throughout the game, giving short audio diaries to send home that you listen to, but each time given the circumstances he’s in at the moment his attitude and demeanor is entirely inappropriate which draws from the immersion of the game. I’d say his acting is on par with a high school theater student. Even without a change to the script, replacing his lines with a more capable voice actor would carry the game a lot further in the long run. I’m not sure how the female voice is, but I will try that option for my next playthrough.
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