SOL: Exodus Reviews

As much as I wanted to love this game, it's terribad. Controls are garbage, with no real mouse support (the virtual stick which they've added in is a complete joke that may as well not even exist for how useless it is) in this day and age, kills any hope of it having any life beyond a $2 sale. Games from 10 years ago managed to get this right, out of the box, there's simply no excuse today. Length is unforgivable despite the bargain bin price. At BEST, the game is 4 hours of playtime, so unless you get it at the $2 sale price mentioned above, it's simply not worth putting up with and wading through the aggravation. There's suggestion from the developer that there will be DLC, but honestly, they need to give away content until it reaches a MINIMUM of 10 hours before even considering charging money for what should have come with the game. $2 max is all it's worth. Don't bother otherwise.

For anyone who likes first person spaceship shooting games, this is a great find. The game play is solid, the story is smooth, and the action is packed. It will keep you busy for hours and leave you wanting to play it all over again. I'm anxiously awaiting the next release.

Pros - Graphics are good. - Cheap Cons - Only three weapons to select and they all have CD or easy overheat. - Storyline is weak. - Campaign is short and there are bugs keep me from proceeding. - The mission objectives may be very unclear. I realized sometimes I just need to wait and sit there doing nothing for something that will automatically happen when the time is up. This is very frustrating.

So far it's a retelling of Battle for Sol which I really liked. Better graphics, better flight mechanics, but ship functionality. So far it's a solid space combat arcade Sim type of game. Very reminiscent of Wing Commander and StarLancer

Sol Exodus is a slightly basic, story driven flight simulator in the same vein as X-Wing or Wing Commander, but with a lot less nuance. Don't expect detailed control, such as shield levels or gun loadouts, but just simple, mouse driven combat. Each level has you battling various waves of enemies, trying to ensure you don't afterburn too much, shoot your guns for too long (the cooldown period is outrageously long) or squander your missiles. If you do well, you'll unlock two points for the upgrade trees (incremental boosts in Guns, Health, Afterburner) - again, nothing complex. The overall effect is that of a mobile game, where you are encouraged to retry levels to achieve the best score, and thus get 2 points. However, the game is so easy that i only missed the maximum level on 1 occasion. Graphically the game is surprisingly beautiful, particularly so since it dates from 2012. It's clear that some of that is down to wonderfully detailed textures, not model work, but still, it's impressive even in 2022. Audio design is rather disappointing however: weapons sounds are reasonable, and feedback is okay, but nothing that really stands out. The story of humanity having found a new earth to move to and 'space church' determined to stop our hero from telling everyone (and for everyone to die on earth instead) is rather silly, but is no worse than big blockbusters from the 2000's like Starlancer, and it's reasonably well voice acted, if a little dispassionately. Gameplay is of course the main reason you're there, and it's serviceable, not hard, but enough challenge to keep you dancing around for the few hours you'll be playing. Overall, a good way to spend a couple of hours, but it sits at an odd interface, mostly because of it's length, but also when it was released: It's either an incredibly well developed indie game, which feels like a prologue to something much bigger (aiming, like Elite Dangerous did, to bring back space-sims); or it's a far too short main game, struggling to re-ignite the flame in the story-driven Space Sim genre defined by the likes of Freespace, X-WIng, Wing Commander. The price suggests the former, and maybe the sequel delivers the 'something bigger', but if so, that sequel also needs to add a lot more complexity to capture the under-served market that exists for story driven, and to do means adding a lot more complexity, and a lot more gameplay.

Very Short Campaign, Great Game play. Adds a new Unique feature to Dog fighting called Sliding. the best way to describe it would be a 360 degree turret ability with all guns and missles. It integrates almost seemlessly with the navigation controls so you are able to pilot and shoot with it. The AI Elites can be a handful without sliding so if your having trouble learn to use it. That said however the AI has a serious flaw with close proximity to solid objects, if you lure them into a dogfight at very close range to a large ship they may crash into it killing themselves. I was able to do this twice, once by accident the second time on purpose ^_^. Overall, a very thought out and well made space combat sim. The story and campaing however due to it being much to short was a dissapointment.

What is SOL: Exodus? it is a rather short but cool linear space sim. You control a small fighter against alot of enemies and usually have to protect some ship with too low hp (even on easy) the game has a rather neat hacking system tho, wich makes it a bit more interesting. The campaign can be completed in 3hours on easy but will take maybe up to 10 hours on hard depending on your skill and luck as your teammates are really useless. The good: - its a space arcade sci-fi fighter sim - hacking is new and interesting - hard difficulty is hard - mission challenges makes you want to replay missions - the achievements are doable - xbox controller support The bad: - Too short - Repetative - Hard is too hard - no co-op or mp - your ships flight path is weird sometimes, this can be very annoying In short if you like arcadey space battle games this game is worth checking out on a sale, just dont expect AAA quality. despite its shortcomings I actually had alot of fun.

Sol Exodus is a "space fighter" game that is exceedingly difficult due to enemies that move too fast / your own ship that move too slow, forcing you to rely on missiles which you only have a very limited supply. You are also often saddled with extra objectives like protecting other ships. The missiles are so slow and ponderous you wonder if you're playing a 1970's game rather than a space game. And the plot about a religious zealot organization with starships that puts the human exploration command to shame yet the exploration command was the organization tasked with finding a planet for the citizens and colonists of Earth. WHERE did these yahoos get the money? The plot made no sense, the weapons are weak and lame compared to classics like Wing Commander or Freespace, or heck, even current clones like Eterium. it's basically an indie clone with the barest of backstory. Graphics are not bad, but overall it's an also-run that were difficult to play long-term.

It's not bad - more Starlancer than X-Wing or Freespace. But sometimes you don't want the complexity of all those systems to manage. It would be perfect if they made a Battlestar Galactica mod for it, since it's got the whole "WW2 aircraft carriers, only in space!" vibe. All in all it's more than worth the < $5 cost these days

I feel this game has too many bad reviews, that don't do it justice. The gameplay is excellent. It's similar to freelancer, but with inertia and glide/slide mechanics. It's a joy to pilot the fighter! Sure it could be longer and have more options, ships and whatnot, but then it wouldn't have this price tag. Great dogfights, varied mission objectives. Hope they make a second one!