Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jul 16, 2014

  Very good puzzles and sountrack here. To get all achievements requires a lot of precision with the mouse though as you can't slow down time as in "Osmos".
• gamedeal user

  Nov 1, 2014

  A brilliantly designed puzzle game that challenges you to manage your fuel, shield, and your relationship between your motion and the pull of the various celestial bodies you encounter. It's such a beautiful visual representation of space and everything in it, and boy does it test your awareness of your environment and the obstacles set before you.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 13, 2015

  Nicely done, great gravity and newtonian physics. Puzzles are very interesting and the challenges just gets better. A great game. Highly recommend to your inner astro physicist in you :)
• gamedeal user

  Feb 9, 2015

  Their are dozens of puzzle games these days. Some are really fast action things like tetris or Bequeled where you have to think on your feet and have fast reflexes. Others are esoteric and ask you to solve problems like adventure games in the vein of myst, king's quest, machinarium, etc. This game struggles with picking a camp. Some levels ask you to go through outrageously fast, while others take a lot of time (or at least it feels like a lot of time by comparison). It also has a reallly terrible difficulty curve that seesaws between difficult levels and cakewalks which you have to deal with starting in the first chapter of the game, and is still an issue by the fourth and last area. Graphics and controls do their job, I kinda like straight up space: Lots of pretty pictures of Nebulas and Wolf-Rayet Stars and things are included in this game. It's always easy to tell what is background and what is a phyiscs object, which some of these games struggle with. You get levels that ask for a degree of pre-planning and then precision execution of each step, and then levels with such a bizarre 1-step solution that the only way to find it is to keep throwing trial and error restarts using different angles and timings, and then watch the game play itself when you finally get it right. This is the main problem with the game. Satisfaction. It's addictive enough where you want to beat all these par challenges, but once you've overcome them, you don't get any sense of "FUCK YEAH I DID IT"
• gamedeal user

  Mar 8, 2015

  Pretty good game. It a fun solar puzzle game.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2018

  Like Gravity Ghost, Solar Flux is a game that I was surprised to not enjoy the gameplay of. The challenge of efficiently managing inertia, limited fuel and gravity is something I'm excited by, and combining that with navigational puzzles/movement challenges is for want of a better term, my jam. My space jam, if you will. Maybe it's the way that orbits in Solar Flux are mechanically expressed as rigid states or that gravity based slingshotting isn't really possible. Maybe I just never mastered the controls. Either way, I felt like I rarely found the gameplay or puzzles rewarding. This has been interesting as it's given me some things to reflect on for the gravity/inertia based game prototype I made a while back and the way it exposes and expresses its gameplay. I don't regret playing Solar Flux, but I feel like I exist on the periphery of, if not outside its audience.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2013

  Great indie game
• gamedeal user

  Oct 29, 2013

  This game is addictive and fun if you like strategy type games, and its very nice visually too. I'd like to see more casual games like this or simillar, I'm enjoying it so far. It has a lot of levels each one a different challenge, please consider giving it a go, I did and I have enjoyed playing this little gem, I also found it Quiet relaxing too. It is a nice change from other more tedious and aggressive type games.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 30, 2013

  Easy to learn, hard to master. It starts out with easy missions but they get more complex and difficult as you go. It's a pretty fun game though; it's a nice break from the shoot-'em-up games. It requires a lot of patience, but I find it very fun! Love this game! :)
• gamedeal user

  Nov 30, 2013

  A beautiful, relaxing puzzle game that's all about momentum, inertia and orbits. A spiritual successor to Osmos.