The Solus Project

 Xbox One
Metascore
69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. MondoXbox
    Aug 25, 2016
    75
    The Solus Project offers a fascinating sci-fi adventure, with some absolutely stunning vistas and a mystery-filled storyline. It hangs too heavily on classical survival elements though, something contrasting with its linear story and that could have used a little bit more innovation.
  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Sep 26, 2016
    70
    A bold, singular adventure that occasionally touches on greatness. [Oct 2016, p.101]
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  3. Slant Magazine
    Jul 26, 2016
    70
    The Solus Project benefits from the fact that you can't just shoot your way out of a bad situation.
  5. IGN
    Jul 19, 2016
    69
    A satisfyingly creepy exploration game that uses a brilliant understanding of setcrafting and circumstance to capture the experience of being alone on an alien planet. Ambience and mood are kings here, and the experience deals eeriness and beauty in equal measure. Sadly, its puzzles are seldom rewardingly challenging.
  6. XBLA Fans
    Jul 25, 2016
    60
    It's a good game, but it isn't likely to impress fans of pure survival games, and it's definitely more intense and demanding than your average walking simulator. As a result, I suggest that you treat it like a low-action sci-fi adventure; the kind of thing that will leave you with a lot of unanswered questions, but that can deliver a lot of intrigue and excitement along the way.

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4.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 3 out of 7
  1. SuperkenGaming
    Sep 22, 2017
    7
    The Solus Project
    From great to unbalanced
    The Solus Project is a first person survival game set on a deserted alien planet, youre goal is    The Solus Project
    From great to unbalanced
    The Solus Project is a first person survival game set on a deserted alien planet, youre goal is to survive the environment and send a signal back home to earth and save the human race
    a lot at stake, a lot of incentive to pull this off…
    The first half of the game was great...
    at first this is a mix of casual walking simulator mixed with survival exploration gathering food and water bottles to make sure your character doesn’t die of hunger or thirst, you also have to deal with the harsh environment... trying not to die of hyperthermia
    the opening moments are mysterious and intriguing.. Finding hidden caves with secrets that once collected improve you stats and chance of survival...
    items to increase your health and inventory size
    There’s very light crafting with you only having to craft 1 torch that burns forever and the occasional tool down the line in story
    This sets up what is initially a really enjoyable and casual survival experience…
    surviving isn’t annoying.. You have an infinite light source, you’ll occasionally have to catch a plant on fire to stay warm, sleep when you’re deprived... eat and drink every once in a while...
    none of which happens that often at all…
    And there are refill stations scattered around…
    so this feels mostly like an adventure game with survival aspects attached to it..
    Exploring this alien planet, picking up documents of other explorers around, throwing switches and finding items to progress them game
    no real enemies here except for one hide and seek like section giving you a sense that maybe you’re not as alone on this planet as you might have thought..
    And the occasional meteor showers shaking the ground around you, really immersing you into this world….
    There is the occasional annoyance I was having with the game like its awful AutoSaving... though there are save posts around the world to save yourself and the face that death can come pretty often as youre trying to figure the game out and the load times of this game are painfully slow…
    But still I was having a lot of fun... I could look past these flows for the great survival adventure this game was
    and then the game decides to not be so linear anymore, get lazy with its puzzles by just forcing you to find keys over and over…
    And halfway through when you get back to the surface after an underground section it broke for me…
    I don’t mean the game crashed or started getting buggy...
    No...
    The game wasn’t balanced in a way to make this section reasonably playable...
    staying warm hasn’t been an issue all game and then all of a sudden it is…
    youre on a part of the planet that gets really cold, is surrounded by water, and there are 0 plants to catch on fire to stay warm…
    so while collecting 4 keys, it started to get dark, the winds were picking up and because of the developers forgetting to balance this level out with items to burn I got caught in a hyperthermia death cycle
    I couldn’t leave my little key island without swimming through the water and just dying the moment I got out
    I can’t possibly call this game a great survival experience with something like this overlooked..
    Cold hasn’t been a problem all game and when it is there’s nothing to be burned...
    After searching my problem I found that plenty of others have had this issue in the same spot since the game came out on pc a year and a half ago and the developers still haven’t fixed it
    that being said I still believe this is a really solid experience, and if you plan to go in after watching this review.. Collect those bushes and hold onto them for this potential game stopping moment
    I give The Solus Project
    a 7/10    … Full Review »
  2. Broyax
    Apr 30, 2018
    3
    L'indé du jour... aurait mérité plus d'attention et de rigueur dans son développement : il est clair qu'à un moment donné (vers la moitié ouL'indé du jour... aurait mérité plus d'attention et de rigueur dans son développement : il est clair qu'à un moment donné (vers la moitié ou les deux tiers ?), le jeu s'effondre comme un château de cartes puisqu'on se retrouve sans direction à chercher des clés pour activer un gros truc dans une zone assez vaste : ça revient à chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin et franchement, on a pas le temps ni l'envie de faire ça.

    D'abord parce que l'objectif général est assez confus et qu'on ne voit pas ce que le gros truc va pouvoir faire et que, à part notre mission d'explorateur censé sauver le genre humain sur cette planète de merde, on ne comprend pas ce qu'on fout là. Certes, l'autre objectif consiste à remettre en route une balise et là au lieu des clés, on doit chercher des pièces détachées -au petit bonheur la chance- mais encore faut--il retrouver la dite balise...

    Ce qui veut dire refaire le chemin en sens inverse sans trop savoir où on va et ce chemin se fera à deux à l'heure, car notre "héros" marche comme un petit vieux sur le point de clamser à chaque pas et quand il court, il marche à 2,5 à l'heure pendant 6 secondes. Ouais donc, c'est pas gagné...

    Ensuite, il faut préciser qu'on a pas de carte et que si -en mode facile- des indicateurs sont presque toujours présents, ils disparaissent à ce moment fatidique où il faut les fameuses clés : non, le jeu ne va pas t'indiquer où elles sont planquées parce que... on ne sait pas. Ou on a oublié.

    Fort dommage puisque jusque là, la progression linéaire permettait de se passer de carte -de toute façon, y en a pas- et que la curiosité nous faisait avancer dans cet environnement bizarre, puis dans des grottes, éviter des pièges, ouvrir des portes -encore des clés, c'est une obsession- et ainsi de suite... La partie survie -en mode facile en tout cas- n'est que peu contraignante, par contre les tornades sont dangereuses et flippantes.

    Les décors sont bizarres et dépaysants -du classique pour une planète extra-terrestre- et graphiquement le jeu reste à peu près correct. On note des ralentissements plus ou moins fréquents, typiques d'un indé boulotté sur l'Unreal 4. Tout est en anglais mais rien d'insurmontable.

    Finalement, ce jeu très lent par définition se prend donc les pieds dans le tapis : explorer à 2 à l'heure ou nager à 1,5 à l'heure pour chercher des putains de clés parce que le jeu n'est pas fini (?) ou que les programmeurs ont eu la flemme, c'est franchement rédhibitoire. Déjà qu'on s'emmerdait un poil quand même dans les grottes et dans les salles, là c'est l'eau qui fait déborder le vase.    … Full Review »
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