- Puzzle, Strategy, Indie, Action
Travel across the universe and save dying suns from extinction in this unique and challenging puzzle strategy game. You are the last hope to bring salvation to a perishing universe as you collect and deliver fragments of plasma using your omni-directional ship.
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Nintendo LifeNathanial EkerAug 20247/10Overall, Solar Flux is good verging on great; it does have a bit of a visual vacuum, but the gameplay — though difficult to get a handle on at first — makes up for this, with potentially addictive action.
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Pure NintendoKirk HinerDec 20187/10All the elements in Solar Flux combine for an attractive, calming, challenging, physics-based puzzler.
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NintendoWorldReportTy EdwardsJan 20197/10With 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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Cubed3Neil FlynnJan 20194/10Solar 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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FingerGunsRossko KenistonDec 20184/10Physics based games are never my strong point, but I always like to give them a go to see if there’s one that will break the cycle for me and allow me to get better at them. Unfortunately Solar Flux offers very little in terms of complexity or excitement. Once I beat the game for review purposes I never went back to it, and there’s just too much available right now on Switch to really consider why I would want too.
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About the game
- Platforms
- Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Firebrand Games
- Publisher
- Firebrand Games, Pixel Games UK
- Released
- July 28, 2013
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
IGDB rating 3.5/10 from 3 ratings.
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