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Solar 2 PC
  • Publisher: Murudai
  • Release Date: Jun 17, 2011
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Metascore
72 out of 100

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User Score
6.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 20 Ratings

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  • Summary: In most games you see stars in the background, you shoot asteroids or you live on planets. But in Solar 2 you ARE these objects! Enter a universe where you must prove yourself to the resident god-like figure by doing its many bizarre and varied tasks. Or just ignore it and see how big you can grow! Solar 2 is an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe. Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems. Key features: - Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do. - Non-linear missions and open-world gameplay. - No boundaries. Drift forever in ambient space bliss. - Full of weird eccentric humor and stuff. - Extensive custom sound track.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. PC Gamer UK
    Aug 13, 2011
    82
    7 quid is a good price for a universe. [Sept 2011, p.89]
  2. Gamekult
    Jul 18, 2011
    50
    Quotation forthcoming.
  3. PC Gamer
    Aug 11, 2011
    45
    As it exists now, however, Solar 2 is a simple space physics simulation with just a hint of a game, and building disposable arrangements of revolving circles quickly loses its novelty. [Oct 2011, p.79]
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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. Quasi
    9
    A beautiful game, with a very nice soundtrack. Though it may become boring after a while, it is a great time waster which you can pick up at any moment.… Expand
    • 2 of 4 users said yes
  2. Othrandur
    6
    As others have mentioned, this is a VERY short game with very little variation. Is it fun? Yes, for a while. After that, you feel that you've done it all before. There are different "missions" that you can try to accomplish, but they're your basic Fedex variety quest. After a couple of these, you just want to tell god to buzz off and let you run this universe as you please. Which, of course, you can't because by the time you have a bit of power, the game is over. If I had to compare this game to another, it would be to Spore's cell phase: you start small, you grow, you eat things that previously ate you, lather, rince, repeat until you're too big, and then bye, bye!… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  3. aejaaerha
    1
    Extremely short, extremely shallow. Fun for 10 minutes, but then you start to feel like they forgot to put in a lot more that could have, like much more stages of planet evolution before advancing. Because of these problems this is hardly even a game.… Expand
    • 2 of 4 users said yes

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