Solar Ash

Buy90%

Very Positive · 2k player reviews · Medium confidence

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

Heart Machine · Action · Dec 8, 2022

Player review score
90%
Very Positive
Price
$39.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
32
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
13
Full audio1 of 13
Subtitles13 of 13

Should I buy Solar Ash?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 153 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story: 152 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 78 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 58 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Optimization: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 2k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise17% are divided33% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
153 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Rei doesn’t merely run—she skates across the surface of the world with a fluidity that makes exploration feel almost balletic.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
152 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Overall concept of story is good, but the presentation of it was really bad.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
78 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The music, atmosphere, visuals, themes, NPC's, and voice acting are all top notch, and are very much what you could imagine a Hyper Light Drifter in 3D to feel like.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
50 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The worlds are a blast to explore, the story is good, the voice acting is great, the movement system is nicely polished, the 3rd person camera system is very often on point (with options to modify behavior to your liking) and the challenges the game provides seems well tuned for a game of this play length (being hard, but not too grindy).
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
35 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The difficulty settings feel on point for anyone coming in blind, and the unlocked 'Hardcore' setting after getting to the end, while it is not permadeath, is rather hard.
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Solar Ash also deliver a really cool and fluid movement system and it play perfectly fine with mouse and keyboard despite the game clearly telling you it's best played with a controller.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay153 reviews
Story152 reviews
Graphics78 reviews
Audio50 reviews
Difficulty35 reviews
Controls6 reviews
Divided opinion
Characters
67% still recommend
Bugs
100% still recommend
Players complain
Combat
79% still recommend
Performance
75% still recommend
Optimization
67% still recommend
Steam Deck
80% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

  • Full controller support

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$39.99

The lowest we've tracked is $9.99.

8 points recordedtoday · $39.99

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