The Solus Project (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Gold Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Yellow
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

 

Description: Earth has been destroyed and mankind lingers on in a small fleet of ships near Pluto. As humanity’s last hope, you are sent to scout a distant planet as a potential location for a colony. After years of space travel disaster strikes, however, and your ship is destroyed when approaching the planet. With your team members dead and your equipment gone you have no way of communicating or receiving help from anyone… you are completely and utterly alone…

Desperately you look for a way of phoning home, but as you explore the seemingly desolate planet, you uncover the dark secrets buried within the depths. In this otherworldly odyssey, you uncover mystery upon mystery as you try to survive the harsh climate.

Review: Adventure games in VR are two a penny. But The Solus Project offers a unique spin on this. Yes, you have crashed on an uninhabited alien planet that you need to explore, but in this game, things are not that easy. This is a game about survival and while there is an underline sci-fi story, it is also a serious game about human survival in barren lands. You need to become Bear Grylls in order to defeat the aliens. While the world looks amazing and is an open landscape for you to discover, it will take time to get up enough resources to explore it all.

While the adventure aspect is fun, it is the deep gameplay of basic survival needs that really shines. A lot of thought has gone into thinking about how people might one day survive in this sort of alien world. From the crazy weather to the way you often find yourself collecting things to survive, it is all well thought out and scripted. This is not some one-play game. This is a game you will find yourself committing to, if only just to survive long enough to find out what (or who) fired on your ship in the intro. Download this game for its amazing graphics and seemingly endless exploring opportunities, but keep playing it to prove you are a born survivor. While the VR aspect can be a little nauseating at times, you will soon forget about it and become immersed in a beautiful environment.