The SOL Device 2

The SOL Device 2

Straitlace Studios · September 1, 2021 · Exploration, Metroidvania, 2D Platformer, Puzzle Platformer, RPG

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9 user reviews67% · 9
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About The SOL Device 2

After escaping the research ship, Samuel finds himself crash landed on a foreign planet overrun by a hostile organization. Now it's up to Samuel and his trusty SOL equipment to rescue the scientists who also escaped the ship, and find a way off of the planet.


  • Platform your way through a 2D environment
  • Unlock new abilities to solve puzzles in new ways
  • Fight enemies or sneak past them
  • Collect materials to purchase upgrades to customize your abilities

The SOL Device 2 — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

The SOL Device 2 is a retro 2D platformer with an interesting block-placement mechanic using laser beams, but players are deeply divided on its quality and completeness. Supporters praise the sequel's expanded narrative, improved visuals, refined combat system, and atmospheric soundtrack, while detractors criticize its unfinished state, proof-of-concept graphics, incomplete mechanics, and general execution in an oversaturated genre. Opinion on whether it's worth purchasing varies significantly depending on tolerance for early-access roughness and interest in the core laser-block concept.

Not recommended Mar 20, 2026
Thousands of retro 2D platformers are infesting Steam, and "The SOL Device 2" is just more pollution in a crowded market of terrible games. There are over 17,000 platformers on Steam, literally thousands (you can go see for yourself if you search for the platformer tag on the store, I'm not kidding). And this is far from being one of the best of those. This is a really badly made, rejected and abandoned 2D retro platformer with MS-Paint graphics. There's some nonsense plot that's worse than a sci-fi fan-fiction, and gameplay that has you doing a bit of combat and a bit of adventuring in a 2D platformer format, but it's incomplete and abandoned. This is a tired, outdated experience from a tired, outdated and obsolete game genre. Just a couple of platformers out of literally thousands have any appeal for gamers lately (Super Meat Boy, Hollow Knight etc). This "me too" Steam Direct platformer in a crowded genre offers nothing new. It's "free", but [i]free[/i] doesn't mean [i]good.[/i] The developers gave up on this 4 years and 6 months ago. It's destined to remain unfinished. This junkware is just polluting Steam and making it difficult for gamers to fully finished, completed g…
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Recommended Nov 17, 2025
Игра 'The SOL Device 2' – это достойное продолжение первой части, которое углубляет и расширяет все, за что мы ее полюбили. Сюжет стал более запутанным и интригующим, с неожиданными поворотами и моральной дилеммой, заставляющей задуматься после прохождения. Визуальный стиль остался верным оригиналу, но заметно похорошел – модели стали детальнее, а окружение атмосфернее. Геймплей претерпел небольшие, но значимые изменения. Появились новые возможности для исследования мира и взаимодействия с ним, а боевая система стала более динамичной и отзывчивой. ИИ врагов стал заметно умнее, что добавляет челленджа и заставляет использовать тактику. Особенно хочется отметить саундтрек – он идеально погружает в атмосферу и подчеркивает эмоциональные моменты сюжета. В целом, 'The SOL Device 2' – это отличная игра как для фанатов первой части, так и для тех, кто любит сюжетно-ориентированные приключения с элементами головоломок и экшена. Определенно рекомендую к ознакомлению!
Recommended Sep 23, 2025
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Recommended Mar 12, 2023
[h1]Before I played The SOL Device 2, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
Recommended Nov 10, 2021
Interesting concept. Where Terraria lets you place blocks up to about 6 squares away from you, this gives you an infinite laser beam that places blocks when it hits something. There are mirrored surfaces. Probably refraction comes into it later. The visuals are proof-of-concept quality, but it's early-access, so ]shrug[. There's room for some interesting puzzle design here.
Not recommended Oct 19, 2021
it looks and feels unfinished, and some mechanics are hard/unable to interact with, and it genuinely needs upgrades.

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