The Red Solstice (2015)

Developer: Ironward
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Strategy
Rating: 3.5 of 5, 2,557 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 5.4 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A tense, tactical survival game where you command a squad on Mars, facing relentless alien and zombie threats with cooperative teamwork.

tacticalsquad-basedcooperativesurvivalatmosphericdifficultteam-basedreal-time with pause

What players say

Players are split: some enjoy the tense co-op and story, but many cite game-breaking bugs, an enemy spam problem, and no updates since roughly 2020. The game is unplayable on AMD hardware, and solo players must wrestle with uncooperative bots.

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