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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
An indie graphic adventure / visual novel game in the style of PC-98 titles. Players take on the role of a ship's security officer in deep space near Jupiter as a deadly mystery threatens the entire crew.
Details
- Released
- February 19, 2025
- Developer
- Space Colony Studios
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie · Visual Novel
- Publisher
- Meridiem Games, Astrolabe Games
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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
With stunning visuals, an engaging storyline, and characters you’ll never forget, Stories From Sol: Gun-Dog is a must for visual novel lovers—bonus points if you like retro sci-fi!
If you’ve ever wanted to pretend to be the chief security officer on a random Star Trek episode, this is the game for you! If you’ve somehow never wanted that, it’s still a great story with endlessly charming characters.
Whether you’re a retro-head with a weird interest in the PC-98 like myself, a fan of old-school graphic adventures, a visual novel fan poking their head into something similar, or just into 80s mecha, Stories from Sol is a tale that is worth your time.
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a wonderful sci-fi throwback, with classic point and click gameplay and a whole lot of charm.
There is something so special about playing a game that feels comfortingly familiar, but wonderfully new at the same time. I don’t think I’m alone in that, given the recent prevalence of retro-inspired games. We’ve seen the NES-likes, the SNES-likes, and the PS2-likes, but Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is the first game I’ve seen that rewinds the clock back to the PC-9800, a series of computers popular in Japan around 1980-1990.
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
I have no nostalgia for PC-88 visual novel games. I grew up at the perfect time to play them but, alas, I’m just some silly American rube. My background comes from King’s Quest and Wolfenstein, I didn’t have access to the NEC 8-bit home computer device. Back then, I didn’t even know it existed. Eventually, I’d end up playing games like Policenauts and Snatcher and develop a deep reverence for the flavor provided by those games. I jumped at the opportunity to review Stories from Sol:...
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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a somewhat short but sweet visual novel experience that captures the heart of the PC-98 era and retro mecha anime of decades past.
Space Colony Studios did a fine job with their first effort in the Stories from Sol series. It definitely isn’t going to appeal to everyone - players who haven’t enjoyed adventure games won’t likely be won over here, but if you’re like me and felt some real nostalgia looking at the game’s screenshots and trailer, I’m pretty sure you’ll have a good time. Now I guess I’ll have to wait for the next entry in the series.
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a remarkable tribute to PC-98 visual novels and hard sci-fi anime of a specific vintage. The visuals are pitch-perfect with multiple settings that offer different vibes, and the soundtrack is a complex beast of speaker-straining chiptunes that enhances the mood even further.
Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog is a decent visual novel, and a good opening salvo for what is supposed to be the first entry to a wider universe. While most of the story is self-contained, there are major plot points left open to be resolved in later releases. The different visual styles all look good, the story is fine if familiar, and you can get through it in an afternoon.