Solstice Chronicles: MIA
- July 26, 2017
- Ironward
Solstice Chronicles: MIA is a bit hard to sum up. It’s well polished and offers moments of great fun, especially in co-op, but as a single player experience the game is slow and starts to drag quite quickly. In some aspects it feels rough and unfinished. As it stands, if you have a friend to play Solstice with, you’re likely to enjoy your time with it - but if you’re going to attempt the game solo, then maybe wait for a sale.
Get on SteamIn Solstice Chronicles: MIA, players navigate a dead colony on Mars as a corporate marine with an insurgent drone as an ally. The game features challenging twin-stick combat against mutants and other enemies, and requires strategic decisions to manage threat levels, scavenge for supplies, and upgrade weapons. The goal is to survive and uncover the colony's dark secrets.
Nintendo Switch
PC
Windows
Reviews
- story44 mentions
- 23 % positive mentions
- 73 % neutral mentions
- 5 % negative mentions
- gameplay34 mentions
- 32 % positive mentions
- 65 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- graphics23 mentions
- 61 % positive mentions
- 35 % neutral mentions
- 4 % negative mentions
- stability7 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- replayability6 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 67 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
Solstice Chronicles: MIA Review – Bits of Fun Here and There
Solstice Chronicles: MIA is a bit hard to sum up. It’s well polished and offers moments of great fun, especially in co-op, but as a single player experience the game is slow and starts to drag quite quickly. In some aspects it feels rough and unfinished. As it stands, if you have a friend to play Solstice with, you’re likely to enjoy your time with it - but if you’re going to attempt the game solo, then maybe wait for a sale.
65%Solstice Chronicles: MIA Review
While the threat level system theoretically makes for some interesting moment to moment choices, it makes the campaign feel woefully unbalanced at times. Combat also lacks the smoothness one would hope for from the genre, with movement and aiming feeling choppy and imprecise. Between monotonous gameplay and a generally uninteresting story, Solstice Chronicles: MIA lacks the qualities that help shape a successful single-player campaign, and the co-op changes feel like a strict downgrade from its predecessor.
40%Get your ass to Mars - Solstice Chronicles: MIA review
You might forget the STROL virus, or that you are tackling insurgents and mutants, but you won’t forget just how much fun you have, solo or with a local co-op friend, with the non-stop action of Solstice Chronicles: MIA. While there are still some areas to be polished, and online multiplayer is unfortunately missing, Solstice manages to translate the souls of games like Alien Breed and Helldivers into a challenging two-player or solo adventure.
80%
