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After an SOS from a remote Mars mine, engineer Jack searches its deserted base for the crew as a storm closes in.
Released 22 Aug 2023
Investigate a Mars SOS
Explore a Mining Base
Find Crew Recordings
Answer the call from a mining base on Mars as engineer Jack Leary and search for the missing crew. Fort Solis will immerse you with cinematic visuals powered by UE 5 and voice acting of Roger Clark and Troy Baker. Explore the mining complex and reach climax of this narrative thriller experience.
Developed by Fallen Leaf, Black Drakkar Games · Published by Dear Villagers
Engineer Jack Leary answers a distress call from Fort Solis, a remote mining base on Mars. With a storm approaching and the crew missing, he enters the facility to find out what happened and make contact.
Explore the base’s surface and underground areas, including its engineering, medical, and communications departments. Follow leads, talk with a colleague over the radio, access locked areas, and handle occasional button prompts and simple tasks.
The story unfolds across four chapters, with some sections also putting you in control of fellow engineer Jessica. Search computers and datasticks for emails, notes, audio logs, and video recordings that add context to the crew’s story.
The supplied reviews are mixed. Players who enjoy slow, story-led experiences often praise the detailed visuals, voice performances, and tense Mars-base atmosphere, as well as exploring for logs that fill in the mystery. Common criticisms include the slow movement and limited interaction, while some reviewers also find the quick-time events awkward and the story’s ending unclear or abrupt.
Responding to an unusual alarm call from a remote mining base, Jack arrives at the dark and desolate Fort Solis. With storm warnings imminent, he heads inside to make desperate contact. As the night grows longer, events escalate, spiral out of control and the mystery of what happened to the crew begins to reveal itself. The storms is approching, limiting Jack’s escape as he looks to hold out until morning arrives.
Fort Solis looks to deliver a high-fidelity experience designed to completely immerse the player in the cast and their long night. With performances from Roger Clark, Troy Baker and Julia Brown, Fort Solis looks to deliver emotion, fear, empathy and much more with every chapter.
Supporting the core narrative are additional instances of story such as audio logs, surveillance footage of past or present events. Accompanying those are video logs recorded by all crew detailing the events before and perhaps even after that night the alarm was triggered at Fort Solis…
The story is told across four chapters. Like a Netflix series, Fort Solis can be binged in one intense session, or played chapter by chapter like an episodic TV show.
Fort Solis brings to players, the next level of details, facial and body animations. With the help of Unreal Engine 5.2 Fort Solis realistic universe is brought to life!
The skeleton of Fort Solis is built above and below ground. The base contains a variety of locations each with their own surface and sub surface levels. Players will be able to explore the isolated storm bearing surface, the creepy service tunnels absent of any light or the multiple departments that help Fort Solis function on a day-to-day basis such as Engineering, Medical and Communications.
As the story unfolds locations can easily be revisited for additional story context or continue to serve as a backdrop to the fate that awaits Jack with each passing hour.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 20 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
