Fort Solis
The experience envisioned by the developers :
A uniquely singular cinematic experience!
The story is told across four chapters. Like a Netflix series, Fort Solis can be binged in one intense session, or played chapter by chapter like an episodic TV show.
Welcome to Fort Solis
Responding to an unusual alarm call from a remote mining base, Jack arrives at the dark and desolate Fort Solis. With storm warnings imminent, he heads inside to make desperate contact. As the night grows longer, events escalate, spiral out of control and the mystery of what happened to the crew begins to reveal itself. The storms is approching, limiting Jack’s escape as he looks to hold out until morning arrives.
Immersive Storytelling
Fort Solis looks to deliver a high-fidelity experience designed to completely immerse the player in the cast and their long night. With performances from Roger Clark, Troy Baker and Julia Brown, Fort Solis looks to deliver emotion, fear, empathy and much more with every chapter.Supporting the core narrative are additional instances of story such as audio logs, surveillance footage or past of present events. Accompanying those are video logs recorded by all crew detailing the events before and perhaps even after that night the alarm was triggered at Fort Solis…
Grounded by the visuals
Fort Solis brings to players, the next level of details, facial and body animations. With the help of Unreal Engine 5.2 Fort Solis realistic universe is brought to life !
An Isolated mining complex
The skeleton of Fort Solis is built above and below ground. The base contains a variety of locations each with their own surface and sub surface levels. Players will be able to explore the isolated storm bearing surface, the creepy service tunnels absent of any light or the multiple departments that help Fort Solis function on a day-to-day basis such as Engineering, Medical and Communications.As the story unfolds locations can easily be revisited for additional story context or continue to serve as a backdrop to the fate that awaits Jack with each passing hour.
Steam User 31
Barely a game, and it even takes control of you at certain points. Failing certain checks funnily also seem to have no effect at all. It's as linear as it gets. No mental effort required at all.
It looks nice. Very nice, actually. Performance-wise, though, it's not too optimized.
Nevertheless, I'd recommend it for people who, like me, enjoy story rich games. If you want something more than that, leave it alone.
I finished it in a little less than 5 hours.
3 crocodiles out of 7.
Steam User 31
Overall
70
Story
6/10
Starts very atmospheric and you want to know more. But for me the Payoff wasn´t really it.
Gameplay
2/10
It´s basically just walking and a few quicktime events.
Graphics
9/10
Shows what UE5 can do with a few LoD problems
Difficulty
1/10
It really hasn´t any difficult elemets
Bugs
1/10
I didn´t experienced any bugs
Performance
4/10
Very demanding for what it is
Sound
8/10
Music
6/10
Decent Soundtrack
Playtime
2/10
About 3-5 h until the credits
Achievement Grind
3/10
Collectables can be missed which forces a second playthrough
Price
4/10
I would wait for a bit of a discount
Steam User 24
This game reminds me of being at work.
Slow walking through nice environments with no means to defend myself besides my bare hands, in the proximity of people who don't have my best interests at heart.
Steam User 36
This game is a mixed bag for me. The highlights would be the story (short but sweet), atmosphere (who doesn't like exploring narrow claustrophobia-inducing spaces on Mars) and graphics (simply stunning). On the other hand, the gameplay is atrocious, it basically consists of walking around (can't even sprint) and doing quick time events (some of which don't seem to matter).
Definitely not worth spending the full price for this thing, or those 15 euros it goes for right now. However, if you can find it somewhere else cheaper it's not that bad, especially for people who like this genre.
Steam User 14
Fort Solis is a great game with beautiful visuals and immersive atmosphere. However, the gameplay can become a bit repetitive after a while. I really liked the story, but I wished there was more variety. If you enjoy narrative-driven games, you will appreciate this one. The voice acting is top, but some parts felt a little bit long for me.
Steam User 11
I'm recommending this game only because in my opinion it does have some positive attributes, and for some the positives may outweigh the negatives. However, it was a major disappointment for me. It's probably easiest to review this game in a pro v con manner.
pros: -graphical style and atmosphere well thought out and executed.
-superb voice acting
-sort of, kind of, interesting story
-psychologically immersive
cons: -clunky, annoying mechanics
-repetitive, unnecessary actions needed for unnecessary, irritating "puzzles".
-laconic, plodding play style
-terrible map presentation and map mechanics
-very little actual tension created as the story progresses, which does not work well with the quiet,
empty atmospherics. This is probably my biggest complaint, because I love the kind of subtle yet
disquieting atmosphere the game utilized, but you'd better be able to produce some narrative tension if
you're going to pretty much avoid any action other than walking around. The game didn't need fighting
or even complex QTEs, but it most certainly did need a story that got under your skin and started
crawling. The game falls flat as a Martian pancake in this regard.
-ending is vague and unsatisfying.
I really wanted to like this game, because it had many of the basic ingredients of a good, possibly great psychological sci-fi thriller. But the development team obviously doesn't know how to cook with those ingredients. All the gameplay issues would fade away in my mind if the game had been able to produce a sense of emotional connection to the characters and the story, but it did not, and coupled with a fairly tepid story concept and an emotionally deflating ending, this one goes into the bin.
Steam User 10
Really short walking sim (4h exploring), but it has a really well done atmosphere and nice characters, the story is a bit predictable but not as bad as some other reviews made me believe.
Graphics are pretty decent, but the game suffers from stutter when loading new areas even with a decent pc, thats almost a common factor with UE4 and 5. It ran pretty good on my pc (R5 7600x, RX 6800XT @ 1440p) with FSR3 on Quality and frame gen i was getting 165 and still had room to spare, since its a singleplayer and a slow game i didnt mind using frame gen.
I got the game with a humble choice and i quite enjoyed it, i guess if you can get it on a sale like summer or xmas at a nice discount and you like these types of games (walking sims and narritve heavy games with minimal inputs) grab it.