- Publisher: Ironward
- Release Date: Jun 17, 2021
Red Solstice 2: Survivors
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 12 Ratings
- Summary: Sequel to the best-seller The Red Solstice. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield - alone or with up to 7 squad members. Can you demonstrate the combat prowess to survive and secure a future for humanity?
- Developer: Ironward
- Genre(s): Action, Shooter, Shoot-'Em-Up, Top-Down
- # of players: Up to 8
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Positive: 1 out of 17
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Mixed: 16 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Jul 5, 2022Red Solstice 2 is a game that requires at least another friend to deliver a decent experience. The strategic and tactical layers work, from a purely mechanical point of view, but everything is too focused on repetitive actions to keep the game fun when playing solo. The limited immersion does not help. Gamers who can get together a group of four people and manages to coordinate sessions will have a very different experience. Four humans who work together to deal with the hordes of monsters, especially on the higher difficulties, can create impressive heroic moments. Red Solstice 2 shows the limits of a solid set of gameplay mechanics but also reveals the excitement that only cooperative play can generate.
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Jun 22, 2021Red Solstice 2: Survivors is a worthy sequel to its predecessor. It improves and enhances some of its peculiar characteristics and stumbles upon some subtleties that perhaps denote an excessive haste and desire to go out on the market.
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Jul 25, 2021Although the whole remains a bit generic, both in its gameplay and narration compartments, Ironward provides us with most of what he wants us to experience: a good run-down of strange creatures, alone or with friends, against the background of the survival of the human species.
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Jun 28, 2021Genre mashups like Red Solstice 2: Survivors can be refreshing and revelatory, or they can feel like a poorly seamed patchwork of ideas. Red Solstice 2 has some fun elements, occasionally engaging combat and systems, and a take on the Red Planet that is familiar but not entirely unoriginal. Poorly explained mechanics, lack of personality and ultimately repetitive mission design all push back against a more thoroughly enjoyable experience.
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Jun 22, 2021An interesting mix of strategy and real-time action dragged down by unbalanced features and a distinct lack of development time.
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Jun 22, 2021A niche but mostly well-presented experience, Red Solstice 2 attempts to create something entirely new by blending established genres. While its mishmash of strategy mechanics into an action game doesn’t quite hit the mark, it does provide a swathe of tense, tactical moment-to-moment gameplay and absolutely nails its occasional moments of creeping alien horror. It’s far from a strategy game at heart, and struggles to strike a balance between its complex real-time strategy mechanics and action-oriented gameplay – but for sci-fi fans who are prepared to overcome the game’s learning curve and just want to squad up and rip apart some eldritch abominations, there’ll eventually be plenty of gooey green blood to sink your grenades into.
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Jun 20, 2021If you enjoyed the first Red Solstice game, then perhaps this will be a satisfying sequel that continues the saga. But unless you got a bunch of buddies who are all itching to furiously click mutated aliens to death, you'll probably have a better time loading up another game of XCOM than trying to survive in the Martian wasteland of Red Solstice 2.
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Positive: 2 out of 4
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Mixed: 2 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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