Solar Flux

Critic reviews

• Nintendo World Report

  Ty Edwards · Jan 28, 2019

  7.0

  With fun levels, Solar Flux is definitely a good physics-based puzzle game if you are taking it on the go. With scoring based on how much fuel or shield you use, the game encourages you to play levels over to perfect your strategy. Unfortunately, the Joy-Con controls made things frustrating making me not want to play on the TV. Solar Flux does have some bright spots that certainly make it a game worth playing.

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• GameSpew

  Richard Seagrave · Jan 04, 2019

  6.0

  If, like me, you primarily use your Switch as a handheld device, it’s fairly easy to overlook Solar Flux‘s touchscreen-only controls and still have plenty of fun with it. It looks quite nice, has a soothing ambience about it, and it’s rather cheap (£7.79/$9.99). It’s just a shame that using a controller isn’t an option, and that long-term competition is limited.

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• Pure Nintendo

  Kirk Hiner · Dec 31, 2018

  7.0

  All the elements in Solar Flux combine for an attractive, calming, challenging, physics-based puzzler. The graphics and audio create a vibrant experience that will certainly lure puzzle fans back for all 80s levels. It’s an easy game to recommend, but I recommend you try to play it somewhere other than the Switch. If you have a tablet or a larger mobile phone, those are your first and second choices for portable play. If you don’t, it’s better to play Solar Flux on the Switch than to not play it at all.

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• Way Too Many Games

  Leo Faria · Dec 27, 2018

  6.5

  What’s even weirder is that the bad controls make the game actually challenging in a good way. Solar Flux definitely plays on your frustration. Being able to pull off a perfect run even with the weird physics and unreliable controls ended up being fun and also quite addicting. Thankfully, Solar Flux does come with almost a hundred levels, so there will always be a new challenge for you to tackle once you boot it up. This is far from a must-have on your system, and it’s still best suited for phones and tablets, but if you’re looking for a quick little puzzler for you to enjoy for a few minutes in between your Super Smash Bros Ultimate sessions, Solar Flux isn’t a bad choice. You could do a lot worse, in fact.

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• Cubed3

  Neil Flynn · Jan 08, 2019

  4.0

  Solar Flux feels like a cheap mobile port that hasn't quite grasped how to perform on the hybrid handheld that is the Nintendo Switch. The puzzles themselves can be fun to play at times, but frustrating controls diminish the experience.

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