Sol Survivor
Cadenza Interactive · 2010 · Tower Defense, Strategy, Indie, Co-op, Sci-fi
PC
Very Positive91% · 31775Metacritic
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About Sol Survivor
✦ AI summary
Build and command a 26-turret arsenal to defend your colony while calling down devastating orbital strikes in this co-op and competitive tower defense action game. Customize your strategy with 10 unique commanders, battle friends across multiple modes, and test your skills against endless enemy waves in Survival mode.
Jump in to intense turret defense action with Sol Survivor! Build turrets to defend your colony and the innocent colonists within. Smash enemies with volleys of actively-controlled orbital support. Play with friends in co-operative and competitive multiplayer matches or test your mettle against our new Survival mode!
- Orbital Support - Get up close and personal with the enemy by calling down orbital lasers, salvos of artillery and many other weapons in support of your turrets. Never be stuck wishing your turrets could fire just one more shot!
- Huge Turret Arsenal - Twenty-six turrets are at the ready in the fight against the enemy, with each one filling a unique role. Try "old-time" strategies like cannons and mortars or ramp up the technology with banks of lasers and automated drones!
- 10 Unique Playstyles - Ten distinct executive officers bring unique combinations of turrets and support to the battlefield. Choose a favorite or pick the officer that best suits the challenge at hand!
- Immersive Camera and Controls - With a full rotational camera, the battlefield is at your fingertips. View the action from afar and plan strategies or get in close for precise actions!
- Exciting Co-Op and Multiplayer Modes - Choose from up to four game modes: the casual Duo mode, flexible Versus mode, challenging Co-Op or competitive Wars mode. Play with up to 8 friends!
- Survival Mode - Fight against tougher and tougher waves of enemies crafted randomly to create new challenges with each game. Challenge your friends to beat your best times!
- In-Game Encyclopedia - Always be well informed about the turrets and the enemy by consulting the in-game encyclopedia. Read up before starting a battle or check up on your knowledge quickly from the field.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Played it again after 10 years of not and it was a great game still. Sad it couldn't have gotten a reboot.2 found this helpful
Decent TW game. nothing fancy. There are more addictive ones.
https://youtu.be/0EsWermjcv8 Glacial pacing and spacing will leave players sitting idle far more time than they are engaging with the game.
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It's sad that this game is no longer for sale, and I do consider myself lucky for having picked it up while I could. The game is basically an alternative to Defense Grid, and if you loved Defense Grid, you'll really like this as well. There are certainly some shortcomings compared to DG, such as less-engaging music, lower-res visuals, and with each planet, you're forced to select which "Executive" (ie. Second In Command) to have at your command, and each one has their own array of weapons and backup abilities; while this allows the game to progress without feeling as repetitive as it might, it's a bit annoying as you'll finish one world and then lose that individual, and thus you now need to adapt to using someone else's layout. Fortunately this isn't that big of an issue, as most turrets have an alternative, like how Machineguns, Lasers and Radiation-towers are effectively the same thing, with just a different look and sound. With that, while the story certainly has much higher-stakes than those of the Defense Grid games, it is a bit of an odd story nonetheless - for example, on the first planet you're defending a massive oil field from alien control... Let's overlook the fac…
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