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Solar Ash

Solar Ash

Released: 12/2/2021

The Void is calling… Solar Ash is the second game from Heart Machine, the creators of the award winning 2016 game Hyper Light Drifter. Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters.

The Void is calling… Solar Ash is the second game from Heart Machine, the creators of the award winning 2016 game Hyper Light Drifter. Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters.

The Void is calling… Solar Ash is the second game from Heart Machine, the creators of the award winning 2016 game Hyper Light Drifter. Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters.

Critics
77
Steam
91
Metacritic
72

Score Breakdown

77.1

Critic Average

75 reviews

91

Steam User Score

1,427 reviews

72

Metacritic User Score

87 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-13.4
Metacritic Disparity
+5.1
Combined Disparity
-4.2

Average of both sources

Review Timing

24 early (32%)43 launch window (57%)8 late (11%)