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Solar Flux
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. Solar flares, asteroids, supernovas and force fields are just some of the challenges you...
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- Released
- July 27, 2013
- Developer
- Firebrand Games
- Publisher
- Pixel Games UK, Firebrand Games
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Solar Flux Reviews
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Overall, Solar Flux is a nice, solid puzzle game on the Nintendo Switch. It’s fascinating visuals and unique gameplay will keep players challenged and rewarded all the way through its massive galaxies. Firebrand Games has created a captivating puzzle game with unique dynamics and visuals that will be a solid good time for all players, especially when you need a quick break from all the bigger games out there.
All the elements in Solar Flux combine for an attractive, calming, challenging, physics-based puzzler. The only trouble is that the Switch isn't the best way to play it.Read More
With 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.
Originally released on iPads and PC, the bizarre Solar Flux can best be described when you mix the weird controls and pickup system from the old Star Control games with the plot from that one weird Sunshine movie starring Cillian Murphy, that one in which they’re trying to reignite the sun with some weird tech before the entire audience fell asleep. It’s a simple puzzle game revolving around collecting plasma and throwing it in nearby suns in order to reignite them. So, is this a good one...
If, like me, you primarily use your Switch as a handheld device, it’s fairly easy to overlook Solar Flux‘s touchscreen-only controls and still have plenty of fun with it. It looks quite nice, has a soothing ambience about it, and it’s rather cheap (£7.79/$9.99). It’s just a shame that using a controller isn’t an option, and that long-term competition is limited. If developer/publisher Firebrand Games had gone the extra mile to implement such features, Solar Flux would have been much more of a compelling purchase.