Solos (2020)

Solos is a LOT of fun! It's basically Breakout with a bullet-hell twist to it. I played through a ton of the levels, but it felt like I only scratched the surface of available content. The rock music suits the game perfectly, and everything is rendered with a fun "notebook sketch" style. All in all, really fun game and definitely worth it for the price.

A fun puzzle game. The music is really nice. I think that letting people create their own levels through the workshop could be a fantastic idea to deal with the puzzle games limited replayability, even though the speedrun mode is already a great addition to deal with it.

I got a review copy and played this game while it was presented at an expo, so I am admittedly a bit biased. Solos is deceptively challenging, its got simple mechanics that work pretty well, and I think the music is actually pretty good. The game describes itself as a action-puzzle but I'd probably describe it as a self-inflicted bullet hell.

The best way I could describe this game in a short sentence would be "Create your own Bullet hell". Graphically the game is simple, but also stylised, as if a child is drawing this happening on their notebook which helped the game stay visually interesting The gameplay for Solos is like a twin stick shooter, but your objective is much the same as the classic game of 'Breakout', clear the blocks, only catch is, you can use as many balls as you'd like. This design choice allows you to make the game harder and more chaotic, or you can take it a bit easier and slower by not firing as many balls. The game supports a lot of fun levels with multiple different types of materials that alter how the balls behave and make it easier or harder for you, an example of this would be the sticky surface which will catch the ball that lands on it. The music is fun and enjoyable, however playing through it felt as though the song during main gameplay did become repetitive. I was not a fan of the child vocals for the menu, however, the settings menu does allow this to be turned off. There are a couple of different game modes, a normal playthrough where you go through the levels and aim to complete …

(Review Copy) The game is very cool! The game is very basic and that is what makes it as fun as it is. Something i wish they changed is the fact that the game is only Game-Pad supported and not Keyboard and Mouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaIY6qz3HHk&feature=youtu.be