Tense, challenging co-op teamwork
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“During the last third of the round, the danger's so intense: it requires the entire team working together to survive.”
Steam review · 665.4 h played ↗
The Red Solstice
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Mostly Positive · 72%Mostly Positive · 72%Ironward2015RTS · Real Time Tactics · Strategy
The verdict
A hardcore Night-of-the-Dead-style squad survival game best played in co-op with friends. Skip it if you have an AMD GPU, want solo depth, or need an active multiplayer community.
Great for
Players with a group of friends who enjoy hard, teamwork-driven co-op survival like Warcraft 3 Night of the Dead
Main risk
Black screen on AMD GPUs and an empty multiplayer scene leave you with a clunky solo campaign
What players love
Eight classes with deep customization
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The characters similar to Starcraft's Terran infantry with full customization from skills to weapons to power-ups to even the ammo type.”
Steam review · 6.3 h played ↗
Great Warcraft 3 NOTD successor feel
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“If you played the Warcraft 3 Custom Map Night of the Dead ( NotD ) or the various versions of it in SC2, you will feel pleasantly reminded of them once playing this game.”
Steam review · 67.6 h played ↗
Atmospheric sci-fi setting and story
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“The atmosphere is superb, the characters are decently written, and goals and tasks are varied.”
Steam review · translated · 10.3 h played ↗
High replayability and random missions
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“The game has big replayability, randomized missions, locations, monster spawns, bosses, everything to make every single dollar spent on it worth it.”
Steam review · 216.7 h played ↗
Cheap for the value
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“I got Red Solstice on sale for 5AUD and do not regret a bit. It's worth at least 20.”
Steam review · 10 h played ↗
What players complain about
Boring, repetitive auto-shoot gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“I am not interested in playing a game with such a stale gameplay loop.”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗
Clunky controls, UI and dumb squad AI
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“it was necessary to have one leader among your people who will be selected at all times. Just this one feature ruins the whole party based experience”
Steam review · 19.3 h played ↗
Black screen on AMD graphics cards
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Unfortunately, this game is unplayable to AMD users apparently, judging by the number of AMD users that have expressed issues with this title.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗
Dead multiplayer community
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Multiple times I have logged on to find fewer than 10 people online. There is no community to play with”
Steam review · 34 h played ↗
Endless spawns and unbalanced difficulty
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“I couldn't tell when - or if - the wave of enemies charging at me will ever end or pause: they just keep coming.”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗
Toxic veterans and forced TeamSpeak
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“Probably the most toxic 'coop' community I have ever encountered, we are talking DOTA 2 level hostility towards new players.”
Steam review · 79.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable2 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 or Later
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2320 CPU @ 3.00 Ghz or Better
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsATI Radeon HD 3800 / Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT or Better
Storage2 GB available space
OSWindows 7 or Later
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2320 CPU @ 3.00 Ghz or Better
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsATI Radeon HD 3800 / Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT or Better
Storage2 GB available space
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