The Solus Project
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 13.7h
- Value
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was October 2017. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 27 in the 11 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Subnautica ($29.99, scores 93) outscores it, and so does Chernobylite Complete Edition ($29.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Critics scored it 68. Players sit 12 points higher at 80 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 365 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 444 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.7 hours; clearing it takes 33, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I haven't played this in a while, but this game was truly such a fantastic and unique experience! I was so impressed by it, it reminded me of the first time playing through Penumbra in a way, but it had such a surreal feeling to it. The tornadoes were mind blowing for the time period and still something I seldom see in games. An excellent sci-fi mystery-thriller!
It's been quite some time since I played and finished this but its an experience that has stayed with me and keep thinking back to it from time to time. I found it to be an excellent immersive experience and enjoyed the world and pacing of progression.
Absolutely phenomenal game. I reminisce often about my first time playing it. The story telling, the puzzle mechanics, the spooky nature. Incredible. Absolute cinema. I cannot recommend it enough.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Solus Project scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/313630/the-solus-projectThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 21, price as of Sep 24.
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