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Solar Scion

A top-down sci-fi fantasy shooter with strategy, building and resource management. Colonize, build stations and recruit allies as you fly your ship through limbo! In Solar Scion you collect resources to build…

7 June 2021

Solar Scion is an arcade developed by Platinum Thunder Studios, released 7 June 2021 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Solar Scion is

Solar Scion is an arcade game developed by Platinum Thunder Studios and released in 2021. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Your life as a captain is over! Or is it?.. Soul fragments scattered, they've got their own plans for your essence! Make peace with your past, or blow it up! Build, bargain and battle your way back to the land of the living in this top-down strategy shooter! Do you have what it takes to be a Solar Scion?
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How it plays

It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Solar Scion launched on 7 June 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade.

Released around the same time: Biomutant, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Solar Scion come out?
Solar Scion was released on 7 June 2021 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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