I'm one of those survival horror fanatics that love a good fight and scare. If you're a fan of
The Forest, Minecraft and
Subnautica then you will love this game. It seems like developers took the best of a few survival horror games on the market and made a futuristic game known as
The Solus Project.
The Solus Project is a survival adventure game, in which the player controls an astronaut on a mission to save mankind. His spacecraft crashes on an uncharted planet, Gliese-6143-C. He has to survive on the planet and faces factors such as hunger level, thirst, body temperature or weather conditions. The player explores the planet full of temples and other interesting places
Why am I interested?
One of the biggest unique gameplay options I enjoyed was the weather anomaly. While gathering resources a tornado dropped out the sky, and it did work on the environment and my character. I had to teleport to another area just to survive. I heard that weather anomalies will range from storms to meteor showers, so it's something I definitely can't wait to experience.
It’s clear that the weather or, more generally, the atmosphere of the planet, is lined up to play a key role in how you play The Solus Project. Naturally, disasters like that meteor shower will be a natural enemy that should keep players on their toes. These disasters are obviously dynamic and random, and can kill the player if they’re not careful. More than just random events though, the weather also plays into the basic survival of your character - a lost and lonesome space traveller. Humidity, cold water, even running uphill are all conditions that will affect your character. His body will react to these conditions and it’ll be your job to keep it up and running.
It scared the S**t out me, lol
Have you ever wanted to know how it felt to crash on a strange planet full of strange lifeforms and unknown data? Well it's your chance to experience it. Survival games like this have been exclusive to PC, but for the first time you can play a new generation survival horror game on Xbox One which what I really desired the most. I felt a lot of good games have limited their market by only being available for the PC. Fingers crossed for Banished and 7 Days to Die to make that leap to console.
There are no “obvious enemies” and there’s also no combat,
The Solus Project could be a true example of a game that really tries to capture that ‘connection with nature. Survival games have a tendency to be very game-y: “fetch these five things to make this, kill these guys here to unlock this area”.
The Solus Project looks a little different in this regard as it’s much more open-ended and equally realistic (minus the intergalactic space-travel of course). The development teams has also promised that the game will harken back to older titles, meaning complex level design, plenty of secret areas to explore and a willingness to push the player to his or her limits.
Why will it succeed on console?
The Solus Project’s more unusual feature (aside from the obvious agreement with Microsoft) is the focus on storytelling. With all of these basic survival needs to occupy your mind, it’s a wonder how you’ll ever be able to pay attention to the game’s central story. Most games of this nature tend to have an underlying plot that’s pretty simple and often found exclusively within lost notes. T
he Solus Project is supposedly much more oriented around the tale of a lonely wanderer.
