Solar Ash
Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters. The Void beckons…
Solar Ash is an adventure developed by Heart Machine, released 2 December 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $7.85 at GameBillet.
What Solar Ash is
Solar Ash is an adventure game developed by Heart Machine and released in 2021. It was published by Annapurna Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rei is a Voidrunner racing to save her home planet from destruction as it is drawn toward the Ultravoid, an immense, all-consuming black hole. Venturing into this surreal, neon-hued cosmic realm, she skates and soars across dreamlike drifting landscapes populated by colossal creatures called Remnants. To hold back her world's doom, Rei must scale and slay these titanic beasts while unraveling the mysteries of the Ultravoid and the desperate hope that led her there.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 32 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Solar Ash holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD FX-6300, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 1 GB or AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $7.85 at GameBillet, 80% below its usual price. Across the 7 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $10.00 — a spread of $2.15 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Solar Ash launched on 2 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and Shin Megami Tensei V. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Shin Megami Tensei V.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Solar Ash yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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