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SOLAS 128
Developer Amicable Animal
Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner. From the Steam store page
172 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Oct 23, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
91
LovedLoved
135 positive · 13 negative
95% range 86–95%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 135 | 13 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
140 of 153 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 135 yes, 11 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 146 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (205 of 219 positive).
Players praise the game's clever puzzles and satisfying 'AHA!' moments. [1][2][3] The soundtrack is widely appreciated for enhancing the experience. [4][5][6] Some reviewers find the game's communication and difficulty frustrating. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [7]
This is a brilliantly conceived and executed puzzle game that I can't help but liken to the Zachtronics style of puzzle design to an extent; a simple, reasonably minimalist concept that gradually peels back more and more layers of complexity until you're dealing with some real brain-melting challenges. Unfortunately, the one place Solas 128 really fails is in its communication. It's minimalist to an absolute fault, …
- [4]
A splendidly fun and intricate game that will challenge you just the right amount to keep you wanting to unlock the mysteries held within. Also, what an amazing soundtrack! There is a video snuck at the back of the Steam screenshots where the developer walks you through small parts of the game. Highly recommend you watch/listen to get a good sense for the game. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
- [3]
This is a contender for my favourite puzzle game of all time. I have played literally hundreds of puzzle games, to the point where I am basically burned out on puzzles... so when I saw Solas 128 I thought "uh-huh... lasers, mirrors, yada yada" but boy oh boy was that initial assessment wrong! This game takes what seem like familiar puzzle elements, adds some brilliant twists and builds a huge sequence of constantly …
- [13]
Simply put, one of the best puzzle games I've ever played. The mechanics are basic yet the game gets a lot of mileage out of them, the difficulty curve increases both by complexity of individual rooms as well as ratcheting up how large-scale any puzzle is - from single-screen at the start to entire areas become one gigantic interconnected puzzle by the end. And that's not even getting started on the bonus puzzles, …
- [1]
100% check out the Demo / Prologue! It's ~20 minutes and entirely its own set of puzzles, so no spoilers and no re-doing puzzles. I've only played for an hour (+20m in the demo. Just got ) and I'm already satisfied. It's possible the game goes to heck after the first two... chapters? events? But what I've played so far has been strong! Lots of little eureka moments, with cleverly designed puzzles that come together …
Summarised from 34 of the 170 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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SOLAS 128 sits at 91% positive across 148 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 172 · most liked firstSOLAS 128 is a haunted puzzle box, a broken mystery, a photic network of anguish, and it needs your help. Probe it, carefully. Peek a little bit deeper. Something is here. Something is wrong. You are the remedy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Someone asked me what my favorite Armor Games Studios game is… and I said SOLAS 128 by @amicableanimal.bsky.social (I love all our games though. Like children.) You can get SOLAS + 6 other great games all while helping to support the @eff.org www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...
neutral · AI labelView post →A splendidly fun and intricate game that will challenge you just the right amount to keep you wanting to unlock the mysteries held within. Also, what an amazing soundtrack! There is a video snuck at the back of the Steam screenshots where the developer walks you through small parts of the game. Highly recommend you watch/listen to get a good sense for the game. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SOLAS 128, very clever puzzle game that pushes the “laser bounce off walls” so much further store.steampowered.com/app/1257850/.... See also the words of @botherer.bsky.social about it: buried-treasure.org/2021/02/sola...
neutral · AI labelView post →Lovely news to start the week: SOLAS 128, my game about redirecting rhythmic pulses of light, is in a Programming Puzzles Bundle alongside 6 other awesome programming-esque puzzle games. I'm a huge fan of The Signal State and Retro Gadgets looks really cool 💜 www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi Bluesky, I'm Amicable Animal! I made the Scottish BAFTA winning SOLAS 128 – a puzzle game where you breathe life back into an ancient rhythmic machine! I'm now working on CRT7 – an escape room where you decypher strange computers, unravel modified tape players, and unlock impossible doors.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a brilliantly conceived and executed puzzle game that I can't help but liken to the Zachtronics style of puzzle design to an extent; a simple, reasonably minimalist concept that gradually peels back more and more layers of complexity until you're dealing with some real brain-melting challenges. Unfortunately, the one place Solas 128 really fails is in its communication. It's minimalist to an absolute fault, to where it can be a minor challenge to even work out how to navigate the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →100% check out the Demo / Prologue! It's ~20 minutes and entirely its own set of puzzles, so no spoilers and no re-doing puzzles. I've only played for an hour (+20m in the demo. Just got ) and I'm already satisfied. It's possible the game goes to heck after the first two... chapters? events? But what I've played so far has been strong! Lots of little eureka moments, with cleverly designed puzzles that come together beautifully once you've found the right solution, and the whole thing synched…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At one point I shouted 'You sexy pulsating clockwork miracle', which sounds like something Alan Partridge would say. I've not finished SOLAS 128 yet but it's shaping up to be one of my favourite puzzlers. Certain mechanics and the visual vocabulary of the game can take a little while to get used to, but once you're over that bump it's an incredibly slick, smart and satisfying puzzler with lots of 'AHA!' moments. There's Alan Partridge again. I absolutely love the larger scale interconnected…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For puzzle game reviews, news & discussion, follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25928931-Puzzle-Lovers/]Puzzle Lovers & check out our [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/puzzlelovers]Steam group. SOLAS 128 is a lengthy and very challenging puzzler that's probably worth full price tag & definitely worth it on sale, as long as (a) you're into this kind of methodical, tear-your-hair-out gameplay, and (b) you're willing to tolerate some notable limits in design/presentation/quality…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An original and great puzzle game that gently ramps up in difficulty introducing new mechanics just as you feel like you're mastering it. The mechanics are all related to light so feel intuitive and satisfying to learn. Each screen is a puzzle on its own but always connects to the next in a vast chain of reflecting, merging, filtering and splitting lights.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh hey, the placeholder art conversation has appeared again and I want to play! This is how all the tile graphics looked in the map editor used for SOLAS 128. We launched and won a Scottish BAFTA using these to make every one of the 180+ levels. The AI placeholder excuse is complete bollocks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi, I'm Amicable Animal! I made the Scottish BAFTA winning #SOLAS128 - a game of interconnected puzzles where breathe life back into an ancient machine, and I'm working on #CRT7 an exploratory music-puzzle game about power, obsession and regret! #Introduction #Puzzle #IndieDev #GameDev
neutral · AI labelView post →There is some really clever puzzling in this game. It offers a fresh spin on the usual light beam puzzles that is full of many neat surprises. I don't particularly want to spoil any of it here, but if you're looking for a puzzle game, this one should be at the top of your list.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This might seem like a lot to pay for a puzzle game, but it offers over 150 levels that are going to progressively get harder and harder and challenge you for many hours! It's just a laser light game where you use mirrors and other items to reflect, combine, and separate colored lasers to get them to their destinations. This is not the first puzzle game to do this, but I love this one! I also love the music while you play at your own pace and leisure. You can adjust the sounds and music and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SOLAS is lovely, a polished puzzle game with plenty of purposeful piece placement set to punchy beats It's also thankfully very colourblind friendly despite being based on light beams, any colour based information is always accompanied by equivalent symbols
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/10 my brain hurts..... also my eyes enjoyed it at 1st but it gets so much worse and the in game hints lied to me one of the hardest puzzle games ive ever played. heres 48 rules, remember and use them all on these multi screen puzzle where you may need to go back and resolve one of the puzzles a different way now that you have unlocked a new exit for a new pew color + 1 hint every x amount of time - hints are mostly worthless... and most of the time it will tell you a place where you already…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't even know where to begin with this game in terms of a review....there is so much to say and so little space to say it. SOLAS 128 is a very slick timing color-change-match machine puzzle box that requires players to use mirrors to bounce the colors around, combine them into other colors, and make sure that you are able to open the next door. Your task is to fix the broken music box, a la ghost in the machine. Along the way, you will have to fight a glitch in the system in order to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a contender for my favourite puzzle game of all time. I have played literally hundreds of puzzle games, to the point where I am basically burned out on puzzles... so when I saw Solas 128 I thought "uh-huh... lasers, mirrors, yada yada" but boy oh boy was that initial assessment wrong! This game takes what seem like familiar puzzle elements, adds some brilliant twists and builds a huge sequence of constantly surprising puzzles from them. Time and again it hits you with those "wait but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very cool "visual-programming" style puzzle game (think zachtronics) with a heavy empasis on spacing and timing, but with sort of a metroidvania map. Addictive so far, and still introducing new twists to the mechanics. Easy recommendation for puzzle lovers!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played about the amount I would consider a " chapter " to be, and played a bit beyond that to see some advanced mechanics at play. pretty chill experience so far. The puzzles involve you refracting light by moving little angled pieces ( and other pieces that interact differently ) The lights have lil bumps on em, and your goal is to get those bumps to the goal zones on each part of the level area, so you can open up the next path. All of this happens even if you don't see it, so some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only one hour in and I'm hooked! Well executed puzzle game with some real head scratchers in there. Great satisfaction in solving them. Looking forward to sinking some more hours into this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey yous! Excitingly Armor Games Studios has a bundle over on Humble and you'll never guess what game is in it alongside a bunch of incredible games!? 13 days to go! 💜 SOLAS 128 🐻 Bear and Breakfast! 🔑 The Tartarus Key! ⭐ In Stars and Time! ➕ Many More! www.humblebundle.com/games/armor-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Decently challenging game with simple mechanics and plenty of RGB. The soundtrack has some nice bangers in there, too. One cool gameplay mechanic is the use of time -- many levels aren't as simple as "memorize solution, rearrange pieces" because they often require dynamic actions such as hitting toggle switches, blocking other beams temporarily (and in the right order), creating self-sustaining mini-loops, moving a piece around repeatedly to bounce a laser to a separate area, repurposing a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been looking forward to this for a while, it's good!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really enjoying this, after a few hours (my playtime count is wrong, I think due to being offline). Not many reviews, so figured it deserves an early thumbs-up. It's a reflecting laser puzzle game with a bunch of unique twists. You have to get different coloured lines to their exits by placing and rotating pieces that change their direction, split them apart, and so on. The laser lines have discrete pulses moving along them which can collide with other pulses to change their directions, blend…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I think the comparison with The Witness is not quite correct, this is still one of the best logic puzzles in recent memory. Every time I felt I had figured it all out, there was something new to discover, as well as inventive new ways to use the things I already knew. Definitely a worthwhile purchase for anyone that likes this genre, with surprising depth of gameplay.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Phoenotopia: Awakening](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1436590/Phoenotopia_Awakening/) – an amazing metroidvania-related game. Relatively more popular than the other games I list, but is honestly one of my favorite games of all time. [Vision: Soft Reset](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1005450/Vision_Soft_Reset/) – a metroidvania, but you can travel backwards and forwards in time and this really matters for gameplay. [Bombe](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/) –…
neutral · AI labelView post →Game is really good. Extremely good. I love everything about it, from the music to the aesthetic to the puzzles themselves. I'm just not smart enough for it. The hint system did a good job of helping me through some of the puzzles I was looking at wrong and got stuck on in the early/mid game. The hint system is fully disabled in the late game and that's why I can't recommend it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →although it's niche, those who enjoy this kind of game, will REALLY enjoy it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really good lightbeam puzzle game. Played the demo, loved it, the full game goes into some fun concepts.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really easy to click with the game. Challenging enough to stay engaging but never too hard. Some puzzles seems to have unintended solutions. Visuals can get annoying, but there's options to turn down the different effects. Only negative is that on the low spec system I have, it can desync, and you need to wait for the light to travel through 30-ish screens. Probably not a common problem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simply put, one of the best puzzle games I've ever played. The mechanics are basic yet the game gets a lot of mileage out of them, the difficulty curve increases both by complexity of individual rooms as well as ratcheting up how large-scale any puzzle is - from single-screen at the start to entire areas become one gigantic interconnected puzzle by the end. And that's not even getting started on the bonus puzzles, which both have some of the most inventive uses of mechanics and which turn the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know... The game was fun at the beginning but got annoying real fast, as a software dev logic is not my problem, unexplained and obfuscated logic is! This game is like reading code with var names like v1, v2, v3 and f1, f2, f3 for functions, yeah I know, you can handle code this way but it's not fun, it's annoying! Some mirrors can reflect on both sides, some can't? The splitters look almost identical which was confusing. The final straw was the stupid switches, that made me Alt+F4 real…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rythm and laser-bouncing puzzle with just a few tweaks and changes to make sure it brings enough to the table to be original, while the game itself constantly introduces cool new mechanics. One of the best puzzle games I've played in a while. If you are curious, try the free demo : It marvellously shows off some great puzzles and teases the game very well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very smart puzzle game that leaves you scratching your head. Love the fact that all of the puzzles interconnect, and it's a little scary to have dismantle the answer to one puzzle in order to solve the next. Found it quite difficult (in a good way), but the hint system was a tad frustrating, especially being turned off in the late game. Had to check a guide a few times as I just found myself completely stumped without a clue where to get started. Thoroughly enjoyable though, and good fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For more interesting reviews follow [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/38549045/] Puzzle_BR Curator Page SOLAS 128 is a great game and has a beautiful atmosphere. The level design is very well done, and the soundtrack is excellent too, reminiscent of the Miami hotline style. This game is not easy, but the player has the option to ask for clues to solve the puzzles. In addition, the game is huge. I played 7 hours and completed 50% or less of the game. Score: 8/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple concept with a very addictive gameplay loop.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very interesting and good take on the pipework style of puzzle games, combining it into one overarching meta puzzle at the same time. Has a lot of lightbulb moments when you figure out the solution, but (so far!) hasn't been so obtuse in getting there. Especially like the little after action reports when you collect a glyph and can track the various light beams through out the map.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great puzzle game! Really enjoyed my time with it and I couldn't stop bopping my head up and down while solving the intricate connections. Be warned, it gets hard and you can sometimes feel at a loss for where to work your solutions. Take your time. Take breaks. Don't overthink it. Overall, really good game with great visuals and sound. 9/10 (sometimes I found some solutions a bit far fetched)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this has been more challenging then most puzzle games i have played.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very fun puzzle game that I found surprisingly tricky, yet still relaxing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SOLAS 128 is a puzzle game where you bounce light around puzzle rooms, combining or splitting colours and aim to get them to the corresponding gates to move to the next room. All accompanied by a chill synthwave soundtrack that helps keep you zoned into the experience. There's a mysterious and intriguing vibe to the game which keeps you wanting to explore and figure out what's ultimately happened to the machine. The game is colourblind friendly, since all the different colours are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frustration to satisfaction ratio was just off on this one personally. Too many puzzles I just fiddled around with until a solution randomly presented. That only gets me so far, of course, so at last I gave up out of frustrated boredom. The timing element of the pulsating beams is just not for me. I found myself more annoyed with trying to time collisions than actually trying to solve puzzles. I just couldn't for the life of me predict collisions before placement of mirrors, which meant I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solas 128 (from @amicableanimal.bsky.social): Since the demo, I really like the concept of that game, and the entire style of it. The music, the graphics, and even the puzzles are really cool. Only the last bonus ones were really difficult.
positive · AI labelView post →This game expands the "redirect laser beams" mechanic you often see in minigames and turns it into a proper full puzzle game with minimalist but engaging graphics and sound. I really liked how the solved puzzles link together into a coherent system that feels a bit like a construction/exploration game. Really satisfying sense of progression for hours
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SOLAS 128 is a good game that is also very annoying at times. the puzzles in themselves are interesting, intricate, with clear set rules and solutions that are fun to engineer and iterate on BUT there are more than a few times where I was completely stumped not because I couldn't come up with the solution but because I was completely unable to identify a key element of a puzzle, it could be me missing that the current screen share a few tiles with an adjacent screen that can be used to share…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing all around. The puzzles, the secrets, the soundtrack, and how all of it connects with each other. There's a demo available, if you're having doubts. The worst I can say is that even after 24 hours of playtime, I still struggle with the timing of the laser beams, and that the secret minigame is too RNG-dependent, but neither issue will impact your playthrough of the main game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Among the best puzzle games I've ever played. The satisfaction of finally piecing together a tough puzzle is immense
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a beautiful and smart game! Well worth checking out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great puzzles. Great music. Great aneurysms.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent laser beam style puzzle game, with some nice meta elements and a pumping soundtrack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing puzzle game with beautiful aesthetics and chilling music. Gets very difficult towards the end.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a surprise in the puzzle genre. Have played other games involving mirrors, lasers, and color combination. It is worth your time. Puzzles run the gambit from easy to head scratching. Didn't spend the time played as indicated. As I would leave it running and come back to it periodically. Wish I would have known the last achievement is time dependent. Still a lot of game and have nothing but praise for the developer and the puzzle design. I definitely enjoyed my time playing this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The background is trippy, but there are settings to make it better - the same with the shaking and trippy affects - that seem to have no function except to make it harder to concentrate on the puzzles. The lazer puzzles themselves are very clever and make me think a lot. The 3 hints I've had to use so far (seem to be about 1/3 of the way through) were helpful but not too detailed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An interesting and challenging puzzle. Zero words, except for those in options(fun fact - even those have translations). Starting levels may seem easy and plain, but give game a chance and progress a bit further :) Music is synced with particles which adds some additional layer to the game. However in some parts of the game music impacts some psychological pressure and heavily distracts from the puzzle itslef. In most levels this is unrelated. Also there are secrets to unlock, which I'm…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It makes my eyes bleed but its worth it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an absolute belter of a game. If you're into puzzle games, you should definitely pick this up. The "bounce lasers off mirrors" idea may sound derivative, but Solas manages to make it interesting again. The light beams have symbols travelling along them to the beat, and these can interact - if they collide the colours combine and the combined beam changes direction. So sometimes you need to get the symbols to line up, sometimes they need to be out of step so the beams can pass through…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a gem of a puzzle game where you control a beam of light as it moves around the levels. Easy to get into, intuitive and very pleasing to play. The simplicity begins to fall away as, piece by piece, the puzzle gets more challenging. The way the game introduces new elements in a very simple and staggered way stop it from becoming overwhelming. Not that it's easy - at times it's joyfully frustrating, but it's incredibly satisfying when you finally solve it. Throughout it all is a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →@amicableanimal.bsky.social Tonight (May 22) 10:30pm EST my friend will stream Solas 128 on his show First Fifteen. 3 games 15 mins each, and a mini review of first reactions. It will be 3 of 3. He welcomes developers & fans of the game to join in chat. Live or VOD after: www.twitch.tv/kelph1
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