Ironward and Nkidu Games have announced that Solstice Chronicles: MIA will get a Nintendo Switch port.
This top-down sci-fi shooter originally released for Windows PC via Steam back in 2017, and is the latest installment in Ironward’s ongoing Red Solstice series. It will be making its way to Nintendo’s console on February 7th for $14.99. You can watch the Switch trailer above.
You play as a corporate marine stranded on a dead Martian colony after it was overrun by mutants created by the deadly STROL virus that has already devastated Earth. Upgrade your character with new skills from four classes as you fight for survival against unrelenting hordes of monsters.
Here’s a rundown of the game:
Solstice Chronicles: MIA is a top down shooter in which players control the difficulty by managing their threat level through special skills. In a dead colony, a corporate marine is left far behind enemy lines. With an unlikely help of an insurgent drone, he faces the battle for survival against an army of murderous, mindless mutants… and worse things.
The Earth was overrun by STROL virus. What little was left of man kind colonized Mars, and established a society ruled by powerful corporations. But Mars isn’t welcoming, and a violent storm threatens to tear the colonies apart. In a race against time, both the corporation and insurgents will stop at nothing to find the cure and reclaim the Earth. As the virus inevitably spreads through Tharsis colony, the players must fight the mutants, the storm and the odds to find the cure before it’s too late.
Key Features
- Master fluid twin-stick combat to blast through waves of mutants on Mars.
- Use your drone’s abilities tactically, weighing the risk and reward of decisions that drastically change the threat you face.
- Decide between scavenging for supplies and upgrades in the face of the oncoming menace, or pushing forward, potentially unprepared for the enemies still to come.
- Decimate the mutant onslaught with upgradeable weaponry, including shotguns, rocket launchers, and more, as well as special Heavy weapons, like the autocannon and flamethrower, which will obliterate everything in their path.
- Develop your own skill tree from across four classes–Assault, Demolition, Hellfire, and Terminator–to become the ultimate instrument of destruction.