Soulstone Survivors is an upcoming motion roguelike that simply dropped a demo final month, a free prologue the place you possibly can take a look at the mix of wildly over-the-top builds and lessons that energy the bullet heaven. You understand, a reverse bullet hell the place you are the hell.
It comes off one thing like a mix of Threat of Rain and Vampire Survivors, with character lessons which have their very own distinctive skills permitting advanced builds when blended with a broad suite of generic powers. On the similar time it has the core conceit of Vampire Survivors: You do not management when your skills fireplace off, they simply do.
Soulstone Survivors shares each video games’ penchant for large nasty bosses and waves of enemies, however they’re extra like Threat of Rain in that the kinds of baddies have their very own powers to unleash on you. The bosses have particular strikes too, typically 4 or 5 of them, and studying to dodge what’s coming is an enormous a part of play.
The demo out there on Steam (opens in new tab) has three character lessons, the Barbarian, the Pyromancer, and the Houndmaster. Every has their very own playstyle and an unlockable secondary weapon, which begins them with a distinct capacity and set of stats. In my opinion, I actually liked the pyromancer, who obtained huge buffs to wreck and skill space of impact. Buffed up with pace it grew to become an uncatchable meteor-tossing monster.
You too can customise every character with a tree of everlasting, passive buffs like expertise pick-up vary, well being, assault pace, and extra such as you’d count on. The clutch add to the method, for me, was the addition of a single activated capacity: A dodge. It is nice for leaping out of an enemy AoE and provides simply that little little bit of management over the state of affairs that I so typically crave in Vampire Survivors.
I discover it arduous to dislike singleplayer video games which can be all about constructing some wildly damaged mixture of skills and shattering the sport with them. There’s one thing about realizing that the builders need me to go completely hog wild that I actually love.
You could find Soulstone Survivors on Steam (opens in new tab), the place it’s going to launch this yr. You too can discover the free demo, Soulstone Survivors: Prologue (opens in new tab), on Steam. It is developed and self-published by indie studio Sport Smithing Restricted.
