


Even its main character feels cut from the same cloth as the drifter. Despite ditching Hyper Light Drifter’s signature pixel style for smooth 3D textures, it’s still instantly recognizable as a Heart Machine game with its deep purples. Solar Ash is a 3D action-adventure game where players explore gorgeous, surreal spaces. Instead, it’s entirely about movement - even during its most action-packed moments. Solar Ash doesn’t dial in on hack-and-slash action like its predecessor.

While its colors and atmosphere are familiar, the developer has made some fundamental shifts to its style. Heart Machine you’ve bloody done it again.Heart Machine isn’t looking to do the same trick twice, and that became clear when I attended a demo event for its long-anticipated follow-up, Solar Ash. Gameplay that feels fluid and satisfying, moments and cinematography that feel like paintings of art, a story that resolves in an impacting way… this game has it all. Be it gliding across clouds, grinding on rails to jump between buildings, or sneaking up on and successfully slashing at the one wall-based creature that fires lasers at you, virtually everything here is an absolute joy to experience. Solar Ash is another triumph from Heart Machine, a fast-paced burst of vibrant, surreal science fiction where players get to glide and jump around fascinating worlds with terrific bits of platforming and action spread out across a series of unique worlds with jaw-dropping visuals.

You will fight through mobs of grotesque creatures, grind rails with sheer delight, grapple around the map and ascend to great heights, take down enormous bosses, and surf through the ashen clouds of shattered worlds, swallowed by the void.Taking place on a surreal dreamscape filled with long-abandoned ruins of great civilization you must stop the Ultravoid whatever the cost.Solar Ash is a high-speed indie action-adventure game developed by Heart Machine known for their work on the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter, step into the shoes of Rei, a determined Void Runner who will stop at nothing to save her planet from falling prey to the Ultravoid’s path of eternal hunger.
