Solium Infernum

Item: Solium Infernum
Rating: 83
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-06-26

Summary

Deep strategic gameplay offers complex decisions.
Stunning art and atmosphere enhance immersion.
Excellent asynchronous multiplayer is a highlight.
Suffers from UI and technical glitches.
Excessive randomness (RNG) impacts strategy.
Single-player experience is notably weak.

Emotions

satisfaction31%excitement13%disappointment10%frustration10%appreciation7%

Reviews (sample size): 493
Helpful reviews: 82%
Unhelpful reviews: 17%
Protest reviews: 1%

83%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
17%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 1284
Negative points: 574
Gameplay points: 620
Perf. points: 12
Rec. points: 191
Misc points: 90

Point	Description	Importance
Deep Strategic Gameplay Description The game offers immense strategic depth with multiple viable paths to victory, encouraging long-term planning, scheming, and tactical thinking. Its turn-based nature and board game-like feel contribute to high replayability and engaging decision-making. Importance 100%	The game offers immense strategic depth with multiple viable paths to victory, encouraging long-term planning, scheming, and tactical thinking. Its turn-based nature and board game-like feel contribute to high replayability and engaging decision-making.	100%
Stunning Art & Atmosphere Description Reviewers consistently praise the game's unique and beautiful art style, visuals, and overall hellish theme. The strong aesthetic design, including character art, music, and UI, significantly enhances immersion. Importance 55%	Reviewers consistently praise the game's unique and beautiful art style, visuals, and overall hellish theme. The strong aesthetic design, including character art, music, and UI, significantly enhances immersion.	55%
Excellent Asynchronous Multiplayer Description The game's asynchronous multiplayer mode is highly lauded, allowing friends with busy schedules to play together over days or weeks. This feature makes it easy to fit strategic gameplay into daily life and enhances social interaction. Importance 40%	The game's asynchronous multiplayer mode is highly lauded, allowing friends with busy schedules to play together over days or weeks. This feature makes it easy to fit strategic gameplay into daily life and enhances social interaction.	40%
Faithful & Improved Remake Description The game is praised as a faithful yet significantly improved remake of the original classic. Reviewers note enhancements in graphics, sound, presentation, and overall design, while retaining the core appeal. Importance 19%	The game is praised as a faithful yet significantly improved remake of the original classic. Reviewers note enhancements in graphics, sound, presentation, and overall design, while retaining the core appeal.	19%
Innovative Diplomacy System Description The game features a highly praised and innovative diplomacy system that goes beyond simple war declarations, enabling deep political intrigue, deception, and strategic manipulation. This system is considered a core and unique mechanic. Importance 12%	The game features a highly praised and innovative diplomacy system that goes beyond simple war declarations, enabling deep political intrigue, deception, and strategic manipulation. This system is considered a core and unique mechanic.	12%
Concise & Fast-Paced Games Description Unlike many strategy games, individual playthroughs are praised for their concise length, often finishing within a few hours. This efficient pacing avoids mid/late-game bloat and contributes to addictiveness and replayability. Importance 10%	Unlike many strategy games, individual playthroughs are praised for their concise length, often finishing within a few hours. This efficient pacing avoids mid/late-game bloat and contributes to addictiveness and replayability.	10%
Engaging Solo Play Description While the game truly shines in multiplayer, it also provides a reasonably engaging and enjoyable experience for solo players. Reviewers find the single-player mode to be a viable and fun option. Importance 10%	While the game truly shines in multiplayer, it also provides a reasonably engaging and enjoyable experience for solo players. Reviewers find the single-player mode to be a viable and fun option.	10%
Intrigue & Social Deception Description The game excels at fostering intrigue, political manipulation, and backstabbing among players, particularly in multiplayer. It creates memorable social dynamics, testing friendships through cunning schemes and betrayals. Importance 10%	The game excels at fostering intrigue, political manipulation, and backstabbing among players, particularly in multiplayer. It creates memorable social dynamics, testing friendships through cunning schemes and betrayals.	10%
Competent AI Opponents Description The game's AI is noted for being competent and challenging, even surprising players with strategic moves. It provides a good learning experience on lower difficulties and a formidable opponent on higher settings. Importance 9%	The game's AI is noted for being competent and challenging, even surprising players with strategic moves. It provides a good learning experience on lower difficulties and a formidable opponent on higher settings.	9%
Distinct Archfiend Personalities Description The game's archfiends are praised for their stellar designs, distinct personalities, and varied playstyles, which encourage role-playing as scheming demon lords. This adds depth and replayability to the experience. Importance 8%	The game's archfiends are praised for their stellar designs, distinct personalities, and varied playstyles, which encourage role-playing as scheming demon lords. This adds depth and replayability to the experience.	8%