Fort Solis - Story Explained 

I love the idea that earth is running out of air so they had a big brain idea of terraforming a place that doesn't have breathable air to begin with instead of fixing the place they're already at

I just want to point out how good Wyatt's voice acting is. Whenever his video logs were playing, he came off so authentic as someone who is an actual medical professional. The "umms" and pauses like he's just coming up with that information while also reading from notes was spot on.

Pro Tip: If you send your family a package that you realize contains a humanity ending virus inside tell them, "Don't open that package there's a humanity ending virus inside. I sent you a plant I thought would be cute but I've realized after sending that it has a humanity ending virus. I'm not joking." If you just tell them "don't open it" they might become curious, and, not realizing the stakes, open it anyway

Something, either the compound or the soil, maybe a combination of the two, is causing compulsive behavior in people. They became...more themselves. Helen became obsessed with finding the answers she was looking for, the teams became more determined to meet Helen's demands for more material, Wyatt became more obsessed with saving lives...even to the point of taking them to do so. That's what I was getting from the story, at least.

I was worried we're gonna have a typical walking simulator but the story turns out pretty solid, and I like they added a bit of action to it as well. I know we probably won't get a sequel but hopefully they'll expand the story in some places, maybe with Wyatt's wife if she's still alive.

With how long some other games are, it feels like the entirety of Fort Solis would be another games opening act.

The acting for this game is incredible!

I just watched Fooster play this. Fun fact: Jack is voiced by Roger Clark, aka Arthur Morgan.

Voice acting and facial capture are next level in this game. Probably the best I've seen in a long time.

This game ended abruptly, but I can see the plot lines that could possibly lead to a part two. Several people mentioned hearing things outside the station during the storms and a hand mark that didn’t look human. It’s possible the soil samples have mutagenic properties. The guy who was taken to the central hub-that could lead to another outbreak. Chris opening the present with the Mars grown plant in it could lead to an outbreak on earth. They could’ve introduced a bacteria that was dormant on Mars, but could proliferate in the environment on Earth. I’m just speculating.

Seriously, what is up with these games that don't really have an ending? They just end. Rather obvious that Compound 26 has some sort of unforeseen side-effect on human-beings accidentally exposed to it.... Hand shaking as the first sign. Sign of what? Mental instability? Eventually the compound makes people violently psychotic? Seems like a fascinating half-finished game.

I just wanted to mention that Helen's voice log about wondering if they should is an almost exact quote from Jurassic Park! Ian Malcom: "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

Glad I saw this video before I got the game. Personally, I find "this level of ambiguity" translates to "no real answers" and makes the entire thing feel pointless. Saved me some time and money. Thanks brother!

Honestly, this sounds as much as an issue with the compound as it is an issue with people stressed out of their mind in a unstable working environment. Everyone seem to have their reasoning, but egoism, greediness and external factors boiled a difficult situation beyond the salvageable. It feels very... human, honestly, and unsettling for being quite "relatable" about the dangers of toxic working conditions.

Excellent buildup and then no payoff at the end.

I seem to recall that one of the terminals in the game indicates Asim and not Nick initiated the distress call (which makes sense given Asim's job and that he was found killed in the Comms Hub). Asim raised the alarm just before Wyatt killed him.

To be honest, when I read about Helens experiments, it reminded me of this horror story I read where a maintenance worker explores a seemingly deserted outpost that was exposed to a chemical that increased plant growth but caused humans to age rapidly on contact until death.

So happy this series is continuing.

You never fail to upload videos on games that intrigue me but that I’m too busy to actually play. Thanks again for another great video. Your channel is criminally underrated.

"Jack was about to go vacation the following day" I was like "oh no..."

The game is interesting, but It's doesn't answer the question whether compound 26 is dangerous or not. It's all really just speculation at this point. Wyatt did see a correlation of a sickness with hand shaking (even his hand shaking), but I remember in video that Fort Solis old. An outdated reactor leaking radiation isn't out of the realm of possibility of causing radiation sickness. I also get that the Terra Corporation could be doing a cover-up but isn't what that any space multi-million businesses usually look like what they're doing based on all media we've all seen in games and movies. Wyatt did seem like he genuinely wanted to help, but he wasn't exactly in the right headspace during all this (haven't been talking to his wife and kids due the storm cutting off communications) Stress, mental fatigue, and suspension of Hellen's work could have maybeeeee clouded his judgement like trying to find connections to things when there wasn't any to connect. One more thing if compound 26 was so dangerous, why did Helen (The researcher who studied and created the C-26 would send it to earth) send it to Earth. She did say felt like she was doing something wrong, but that could be taken out of context like reporting Wyatt and getting him suspended for one. What if the big twist was that C-26 was never dangerous, but a stressed-out Wyatt grasping for straws to make himself seem right and going extreme measures. (This just my theory and there's a lot of evidences to disprove me, but would be cool twist) p.s love the videos keep it up

finished the game and immediately came here, lol. I enjoyed it for what it was. the plot was far different than what I thought it would be. I wish there was more of it.

I opening beer for this one.😁 You doing fantastic job Harry. Best lore presentations on RU-vid. 👍👏👏👏

I like ambiguity but at certain points things can be too muddied. Like maybe they're just all going stir crazy, maybe there is an alien, maybe it is the soil doing something, all of these seem like they can be true on their own. And there's not as much incentive as with other games to really make it worthwhile to pick a side, especially since you'll never get enough evidence to support it.

You know what, it's very rare for someone to be able to get me to watch a video about a game I don't know anything about, but you manage to do it!

I'm impressed by how Fallen Leaf managed to introduce so many genuinely interesting ideas and mysteries into their game and then proceeded to not expand on any of them in any kind of way whatsoever. It's like if the studio took the writer(s)'s very first draft, went "good enough", and made the game without adding anything more to the story. I'm honestly baffled by how unfinished this game's story feels.

Love the content man, keep it up, you are definitely the best gaming lore explainer/story explainer out here on RU-vid

3:13 "Surprisingly unperturbed" was exactly my thought. I couldn't tell if Jack was joking about it being a bad nosebleed, or if he really assumed it was something that innocuous.

Story felt a bit of a letdown for me. The big thing for me it's that it's centered around a super dangerous infectious factor but we barely see anything about it other than hearing about it from the logs. The game really fails to establish how dangerous this is and story falls apart because of it because not seeing that also means we can't really understand Wyatts actions. At this point story might as well have been about a wacko who started killing people because he's mad which is essentially that since he killed everyone else , virus didn't do anything. All we see about the virus is the slight hand tremor nothing to shock us. It's like walking dead but we never actually see the zombies to understand the severity of the situation. Not to mention there's a lot if things left out. Like the marks at the door which in the logs are potentially attributed to alien lifeforms but are never addressed again or how the protagonist girl gets infected to begin with.

I don't even know half of these games you do. I just like to hear your explanation, I also appreciate how much research you do for these keep up the great work! :)

This game seems like a hidden gem. Major cliff hanger . I want to know what’s going to happen next? Did the people mutate? Is that the scratching they seen? Is there a alien out side? So many questions unanswered. Beautifully done mate with the video

The facial animations and the characrers' motions are insane!

Okay, after putting way too much thought into it. I think Wyatt saw the abuses of workers, and that combined with the isolation, the storms, and the noises the aliens made (let’s assume they were seeking shelter from the storm) sent him into a paranoid spiral, and he assumed the noises were them working when they shouldn’t be.

The story can be great, but when the protagonist doesnt do specific inatinct level actions, my suspension od disbelief gets ruined. In this case, you heard your partner get attacked. You call central, but dont tell them the escalated situation. You go after them, find a madman who pretends to be someone your coworker found dead. Then you dont find anything that can be used as a weapon. Then there's this actual disease. These people were living here for presumably months, before getting sick, but two people who show up for one night start exhibiting symptoms. Sorry, but nah

i absolutely love your channel and how you explain games,keep doing what you do!

Bro, the way your script for this sounds, is kinda like a myth that gets passed around on Martian colonies.

If the infection is caused by the soil why does Wyatt blame Helen's work? I was thinking maybe the compound, "lightning in a bottle", is able to supercharge plants so they can grow on the hostile planet's surface (and begin terraforming). This same compound causes people to get sick, and mutate into super human monsters resident evil style (hence the claw marks). That's why Wyatt is killing people while they're still in human form, he knows they are already dead. This sorta makes the plot come together, except then why involve the soil at all?

I see why Wyatt did it. Playing through the game there was a voice log that Helen said that it’s not a question that they can do it. It’s if they should do it. She knew what she was doing was wrong. It was a good game and a morally thinking kind of game.

As someone who enjoys new ideas and stories, I'm enjoying your summaries of these sci fi/horror games. I don't have the time/energy to play all of these games so it's great to be able to take in their core ideas and stories in this format. I hope they make a sequel to this one and you cover it.

Completed this yesterday and was hoping for you to do one of these. Appreciate your work!

Wow, the acting in the video logs is *really* good - like it's standing out to me and I'm half-watching while I'm chorin' and it *still* got my attention. Very good mo-cap work.

Thanks again for more content Harry :D You always seem to brighten the week for everyone!

Cheers so much for ordering the timeline out like you did. Finished the game today but missed a few key videos so this really helped fill in the blanks.

love ya harry. i always enjoy your breakdowns.

So wait, what is C26 now? I still don't understand if there are deadly creatures on the planet hiding under the crust or if it's the soil with dangerous (parasite?) organisms.

If my hand is shaking because of scared or not enough sleep and that psycho saw me, he assumed that I got an infection and hunted me. The story is more like that, the antagonist who became paranoid of everything.

Im so glad you made this!

man thanks for this summary, some things I had already picked up other things I was traveling, thank you very much, you are amazing

Harry you are the GOAT i absolutely love all your videos

I’m so happy right now, I was about to request a story breakdown of this game. This is sick made my day

Just finished this and honestly expected more. The graphics are amazing and I loved the banter between Jack and Jessica. Most of the exchanges made me laugh, I really liked their friendship. It's less of a walking simulator and more a dawdling sim. It does end very abruptly when I expected another chapter. Excellent production values but it's basically an interactive movie. 6/10

I believe the story is less ambiguous than it first appears. To me it is made relatively clear what is going on from a macro level, even if the details in the micro are too vague or omitted. To claim that “it could’ve been anything, some alien or robot or animal or..” sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts presented. It’s made clear to us that the compound is linked to aggressive behavior through the reaction by the bees. It’s explained that a less potent, earlier version of the compound was causing the bees to try and enter people’s suits and that they had become aggressive. The “trying to get inside of something and becoming aggressive” thing sounds alot like the claw marks and the noises outside. To me it’s clear that we arent dealing with a new entity like aliens and such. Instead it’s existing creatures being affected and experiencing drastic changes. And what creatures had the most exposure? What creatures did we see experiencing physical changes, having to be shipped off site? What creatures did we see growing increasingly hostile to the point of aggression and even violence? The humans on the station. I believe that Tout’s crew are responsible for the attempts to enter the station and the claw marks. Beyond that it very well may be possible that the entirety of Centrepoint is “infected” or atleast overrun considering any crew member who was deemed too far progressed in their “radiation sickness” was sent there. It’s a very real possibility that the creatures trying to forcibly enter Solis are Humans in the late stage of Compund 26 reaction and they are now spreading out across Mars. “There is no better tomorrow. I know now that we are all damned” Admittedly I am getting a bit into wild speculation as far as Centrepoint is concerned but I do believe the events of the station are more clear than most claim.

Harry the Don doing his BUSINESS. What a CHAMP!

Love for this content. Was surprised by this game.

Your Videos are so awesome! When I see one in the recommended Im like a child on Christmas

While the game isn’t “bad”, they definitely should have either made the game longer or had more interactivity in the game, there’s a reason why the game has the term “walking simulator” as that’s all you do until there’s a cutscene, it would have been cool to have to sneak around certain security systems or even Wyatt, plus that ending was unfulfilling as it answered almost nothing, not even why Wyatt went mad, I get the dead space vibe of “what the hell is going on?”, but it ends on such a cliff hanger and is just another game you’ll forget about

I don't mind the game's ambiguity -- but it would've better served the devs to lean more heavily into it. I didn't care for some lines being directly lifted from John Carpenter's The Thing - down to the inflection of how that line was delivered --- " no one trusts anyone anymore ". ( The doctor being the one to sabotage means of escape and insist that 'no one leaves' is also a direct plot comparison. ) What do I mean about leaning more heavily into ambiguity? The game's story doesn't lend itself well in connecting what C26 's supposed connection is to illness nor what it could do. The 'radiation sickness' people are developing is hinted towards prolonged exposure while working outside the base area on Mars --- not by the compound. There needed to be more implications from the Doctor that the experiments Indoors were more dangerous than the men working Outdoors. The other crew mates could've commented more on the doctor's erratic behavior suggesting the entire incident was caused more from working on Mars - the isolation, loneliness, and onset of a human developing mental illness from the strange environment and they don't believe anything is actually wrong.

5:50 You gotta love the dude logic of smashing someone's head around and *then* asking them questions

Thank you for the summary! Looks as though there really wasn't enough information in the game for us to actually understand what happened, that in the end, the gaps in the material do not allow us to find out.

Man, I've been waiting for this!

Amazing video as always. Keep it up!

Notifications Are Working Nice, lets see the new Harry video

YESSS Gaming Harry always delivers 🎉

So the story was about this compound 26 which was a cure for oxygen for earth and Wyatt thought that it wouldn't work so he killed them and the fort Solis was out of control

Been waiting for this

Nice work Gaming Harry ❤😊

Thank you for the deep dive and thorough explanation of the events going on. From this it seems as though a part 2 would be in order to follow on with whatever it was Wyatt had sent to his wife and whatever Helen had sent to earth as well. This could end up being on earth with some follow up with whatever the “creature” is on Mars.

Thank you so much for explaining the story. Cheers : )

I liked what they implied in the end, that should be the next game or at least a plot to a movie

Omygawd yes. I needed a new episode of Lore&Order.

Man the voice acting is 10/10

So the soil is making people sick (causing radiation sickness). Compound 26 is made with the soil Nick gathered with his mining team, probably a type of soil which is more potent then the normal Mars soil, hence why it grows the plants better. Problem being, more potent means its also deadlier and causing some weird sickness. This sickness being it could mutate people and this was probably happening with the mining crew. It got out of hand as 1 of the members transformed into a weird clawing monster, cauzing the weird claw marks and making the noises that Wyatt heared? This is my take on what Compound 26 might do? Cuz the game and this video don't really explain that.

Very underrated game, the writing, the voice acting the atmosphere all made for a great experience.

Another great video

So given this explanation...the "good" ending is actually the bad ending. As the protagonist being recovered by TERRA Security means the Corporation now has a living subject in fected with the contagion.

Ah yes, another video from our friendly neighborhood lore explainer, can’t wait to find out the story of this game!

it's doom with a good story. without unnecessary violence.

This is the first game I've seen where the speech patterns flow as naturally as they do in the real world. REally great work here. BTW, is the vocie actor for Wyatt Michael Fassbender?

I think it was just a case of folie à deux or shared psychotic disorder brought upon by Wyatt and all members of the team bought into the hysteria

The voice acting in this game is amazing

Good explanation video as always I wish fort Solis is made a movie

I loved this game and never wanted it to end! I hope it did well enough to get a FS 2! Or some DLC that fleshed out a bit more of the lore.

god this story is so good ! the graphics, the visuals in the video logs and the voice acting is top tier- im glad you covered this !! ❤

Great explanation of story 😊

I finished the game earlier today and yeah to be honest the future is scary.

This game was short but damn it is a good one, this definitely has potential for a sequel

The game itself is pretty cool but there were so many loose ends what made the claw marks on the hanger door? What left that inhuman handprint, what was throwing rocks, what the hell was making noises out in the storm? What were the side affects of compound 26 and what exactly was it doing to people? What the heck threw that platform at jack and made it curve like that, like these are things I desperately wanted answers and I got none. And I just feel like it could have been fleshed out a little bit more so that those questions could be answered you know?

Love the reference to OBSERVATION early in this video. Such an underrated and untalked about game unfortunately.

Very cool story! I like the game a lot!

Fantastic

Best. Channel. Ever.

Heh. Helen channeled Jeff Goldblum and then the dinosaurs killed everyone. Wait, no, that was the doctor. Or was it the monster? Or the mysterious compound? Harry, thank you for playing this so we didn't have to.

I too have played _Deliver Us the Moon_ and _Observattion_ and I liked them so much, currently I hold _Deliver Us Mars_ on my wishlist on PSN, I want to play it when the price is lower. If you recommend this game I will put in my wishlist too.

Your voice always reminds me so much of The Gaming Merchant

you should do a video about Prey and/or Prey Mooncrash! Excellent space game

I just played through the entire game until the end and read every log, watched every vlog and still don't understand what the hell is really going on. I only got that there is something bad with the compound 26 going on and making bees aggressive but no real explanation. The dialog with Wyatt also doesn't give us anything, he remains very vague at all times and give us no clue to understand why he is acting the way he is... 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I’ve got to hand it to the voice actors and mo-cap team. They did a really good job at making those video logs seem real in the way the actors delivered their lines and the mo-cap guys portrayed the characters’ mannerisms. Especially with Dr. Taylor. Like, his were more believable than 97% of films and games ever are. I could have believed that Dr. Taylor was a real person if I didn’t know any better.

The story would have been great for a movie adaption. Wyatt is played really well and I liked how he is built as a character. It may be seen as a walking simulator but the game plays out as a movie. Too bad the reviews on Steam are only mostly positive. I enjoyed the story of the game.

The animation is so good

1:40 and he was about to retire and his birthday was the next day, so was his anniversary, and his wife was 9 months pregnant.