Solarix

Pulsetense Games · Apr 30, 2015

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Solarix is a science-fiction stealth-horror game featuring open-ended levels for both combative and stealth-focused playstyles. Solarix combines old-school sci-fi horror with modern style and graphics. The story follows an electrical engineer desperately fighting for his life after an infection wipes out an interstellar research station. He must contain the disease, battling both the remnants of the crew and his own fracturing mind. Our goal is to go beyond jumpscares and cheap thrills. Solarix is about a world that overpowers you with unease, insecurity, and desperation, forcing you to confront your own role in the horrors to come.

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Critic 5.1 (4 critics) · Gamer 5.6

Critic reviews

TechRaptor
Bryan Cebulski · May 27, 2015
5.5
Solarix knows what it wants to do and does it fine enough. With its twelve wide open levels (which, to be honest, just make it more of a pain to navigate than anything, as there’s not much to do within these spaces) and relatively linear progression, the game lasts around ten hours or so. It’s woefully average, facing the same problems that most of these kinds of games do like bad AI and a detached story. The sci-fi horror enthusiast can find a satisfying experience in getting one more ruined space station to explore, but it never really surpasses the old masters.
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Game Watcher
Chris J Capel · May 12, 2015
5.0
The developer’s heart is in the right place, but Solarix just isn’t very good. It tries to be a horror-focused stealth game but mucks up everything except the story. Level and monster design is pathetic, enemy AI is poor, and everything is predictable which removes all the horror. Finally the game is buggy as all hell so any fun that Solarix’s story offers (which is admittedly definitely there) is wiped out the third or fourth time the player gets stuck in a wide open corridor or by pressing the crouch button.
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3D Juegos
Alberto Pastor · May 06, 2015
4.0
Hay buenas ideas de fondo en Solarix, que no podía tener mejores referentes que System Shock o Deus Ex, pero lo cierto es que esta aventura de terror y sigilo está muy pero que muy lejos de la calidad de estos clásicos. Hablamos de un videojuego genérico a más no poder que falla en prácticamente todos sus apartados. No es divertido, no funciona especialmente bien, ni tampoco presenta una historia o ambientación digna de mención.
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Vandal
Juan Rubio · May 06, 2015
6.0
Por desgracia, plasmar una idea en algo jugable no siempre es fácil, y más de una vez la ejecución se ha llevado por delante un juego prometedor. Como ya adelantamos en las impresiones, Solarix tiene problemas que nos impiden recomendarlo abiertamente. Ahora mismo es una aventura correcta, con buenos momentos y que entretiene, pero con carencias que lo arrastran hasta un muy segundo plano en un género que ha dado tanto bueno en los últimos años.
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