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2016PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable79 % positive18.99 €

You are stranded on an alien planet and must endure harsh weather, hunger and dangers while exploring caves and ruins in first person. The goal is to uncover the world's secrets and send a signal back to Earth.

  • Resources and survival
  • Lots to discover
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lore and world history
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Solus Project special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Outer Wilds

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2019USK 0PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified95 % positive22.99 €

Brings what grabs you about The Solus Project: a deep world history, lots to discover and an open world.

Explore a solar system caught in a 22-minute time loop and unravel a cosmic mystery.

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Resources and survival

As disaster specialist Dalia, you clean alien fungus from facilities around Saturn's rings, lay victims to rest and uncover the contamination's origins. It blends calm cleanup gameplay with survival and exploration.

The Station

Lore and world history

An atmospheric first-person adventure aboard a space station where you play a recon specialist uncovering what happened to the crew and the secrets of an alien civilization. Exploration, logs and light puzzles drive the story, with no combat.

In Other Waters

Lore and world history

You guide biologist Ellery Vas's diving suit across an alien ocean planet entirely through a minimalist map interface. Calm exploration, sample collecting and light puzzles drive an atmospheric story about loss and ecology.

Nauticrawl

Puzzles and brain teasers

You pilot a stolen submersible craft on an alien planet and must work out its baffling levers, buttons and gauges to escape. Figuring out the controls and the surroundings is the heart of the experience.

Observation

Lore and world history

You play S.A.M., the AI of a damaged space station, using cameras, systems and puzzles to uncover what happened to the crew. A slow-burning, eerie sci-fi thriller with strong atmosphere and an unusual perspective.

Kona II: Brume

Resources and survival

In Kona II you step into detective Carl Faubert in 1970 northern Quebec, where a strange mist cuts a mining village off from reality. You piece together clues and solve puzzles while fighting to survive in a tense, unsettling mystery.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Lavish presentation

As a debt-laden salvage worker you dismantle huge spaceships in zero gravity with a cutter and grapple, sorting parts for profit. Physics-driven puzzling, the threat of explosions and a meditative work rhythm make it special.

Surviving Mars: Pioneer

Resources and survival

You fight to survive as a lone pioneer on hostile Mars, building a life in the desolate red wilderness in VR. It brings the Surviving Mars universe into first-person, with scarce resources and a strong sense of isolation.

Voices of the Void

Open world

You work as a scientist in a remote Swiss mountain lab, capturing and analyzing signals from space and selling the data. Between routine tasks and puzzles, creeping horror emerges as some signals turn out to be anything but normal.

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