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Fort Solis - story-driven thriller on Mars

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Interesting. I wonder if the threat is supernatural, scientific or was it aliens?
 
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It's a pretentious walking sim, a non-game, of course it fucking sucks.
I was intrigued by the initial teaser because it wasn't obvious what kind of game it was going to be. I was assuming some kind of space survival horror deal. Once they started throwing the term "narrative thriller" (lol) around and it became obvious there would be no gameplay I immediately lost all interest. Seems like the latest in a trend of people being obsessed with celebrities/voice actors starring in a game, rather than anything that makes games good.

Edit: Getting a few minutes of enjoyment out of the Steam reviews, however:

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I played through it today. It's not long, around 4h as advertised. It is a walking simulator, so if you hate these then avoid, but if you can enjoy good walking sim for what it is then it's a decent one. Very atmospheric, and I love audiovisuals. Music creates tension most of the time, the aesthetics look very realistic - I can believe such base, suits, vehicles etc. could exist in the future, it doesn't have stuff just to look cool, everything seems to have utility (from a visual perspective because you can't interact with much). The story is unfortunately extremely linear and you're better treating it as a movie more than a game, which is what walking simulators are about, I guess. Good thriller movie, but that's it.

If you are a person who enjoyed Dear Esther then you will enjoy Fort Solis even more. If you disliked the former you will dislike the latter.

By the way, if you decide to play this game and have GPU driver issues with DirectX 12 then run the game with "-dx11" command. Might be because of my fairly old card (GTX 1060), the game crashed a lot, but running in DX11 I had no issues whatsoever.
 
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It's a shame story doesn't go with something alien or supernatural. It would be much better.
 
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