灵魂筹码 Soul at Stake

你对得起我们吗？我一个人买了四份，大号小号，送了朋友两份，DLC买了一半，你直接一声不吭的跑路了，你对得起我们吗？RNM！退钱！

Alright, I recommend this game, but not in early access. it's quite like Dead by daylight. But it got some new idea. Is good but not good enough. Terrible match system, terrible optimise, terrible Anti-Cheat and most important stiff action. For the people who NOT LIVE IN CHINA MAINLAND: if you want to play this, must change your download zone to China. Steam-Setting-Download-Download Zone Othervise you need wait for thousands years to play 1 round.

官方跑路了，两年没有更新，刚开始我挺支持国产游戏，现在官方跑路了，别买了

我特么简直亏死了。两年前买的游戏，一直没时间玩，今天想起来，结果发现游戏没了。。。。我草。我特么一次没玩过呢。。。1.3个小时，就是买完之后上去看了一眼。。。。。。。要疯了

我会永远恨你永远恨你远恨你恨你你 开发商跑路了服务器寄了别买

别看了，官方一声不响的跑路了，别买

Having played 1700+ hours of Dead by Daylight, this is a nice refreshing experience in the same genre. Fresh new gameplay mechanics with the cards that you have to use on the seals and make it go up to 21 to seal it, Devil being able to teleport to the seals (generators if you've played DbD), dodging mechanic for Gamblers, and the stores where you can buy one of three items to hold and use. The Devil is slower then the Gambler, but the Devil can teleport to seals to cut them off, and can use their ability/items to help them catch up. Devs are pushing updates daily for bug fixes and whatnot which is great to see. That being said, it's still in early access. There's bugs and I'm sure there will be more maps, items, devils, and gamblers in the future. Oh and right NOW there's not many players, unless you change region to US-Los Angeles or China-Beijing for your steam download region. Highly recommended even in early access! Edit: If you want to find people to play with, talk about the game or just hang out feel free to join our discord! It was created by @LucentGhost and we're having a blast with this game :) https://discord.gg/bRAyjKc

[h1]Forward[/h1] I did not get this game for free, I am not paid to give this review, I have not received any content for actively playing/using/streaming this game. This is my opinion on the game, therefore comments down below will not change said opinion for it's my own personal experience with the game, and what has shaped this review. [b]This game is not a chase simulator, it's for intelligent people to set up [i]ambushes[/i] and entrap the gamblers.[/b] [h1]Pros[/h1] [list] [*] Atomsphere [*] Imbalanced [*] Intelligent use of mind games/ambuse mechanics [*] Winning feels good [*] The Community [/list] [h1]Cons[/h1] [list] [*] Wait times [*] The Bell [*] Unlimited Dodges [/list] [h1]Explaination[/h1] So let me speak on the pros first. The game does a really good job of setting up the spooky atomsphere of the game without forcing the person playing killer to try to set up the scares/horrors for the entire match like in Dead by Daylight. There is ambient sounds, the environment around you moves, and stuff just randomly happens if you linger a bit too long just to put you on edge and keep you looking around yourself, which is something that the competitors do not actively have going for them. The game is overall fun, spooky, and interactive. You are putting cards in a card holder just like you're starting gens but you actually need your allies for it gets progressively harder and killer/devil sided with the more allies you lose but it's still possible to win. With that said this entire game has the gamblers moving faster than devil but the devil has the ability to set up ambuses to get hits on the gamblers to gain their stakes. Soul at Stake is a slower pace, intelligence focused take on asym horror genre. It will not be for everyone. Because of this Soul at Stake doesn't feel frustrating or mindlessly straight forward as Dead by Daylight Soul at Stake does have a slight learning curve however for those that have invested a lot of time into Dead by Daylight. But the game is imbalanced on purpose with the devil being stronger intentionally, and it's not overbearingly stronger. The devils don't feel overpowered at all. If anything they feel like they are at the right powerlevel for their respective powers. Prince having no terror radius, Corpus having mobility, and Bride being able to make clones and teleport to her clones. Now to the Cons. Due to the devs of the game not marketing the game because they want to fix bugs, and make sure that everything is working properly before bringing people in (props to the devs for doing that btw most devs would have just thrown the game out there and told us to deal with it) wait times can be absurbly long. There's low population on US East except for around 2pm EST - 10pm EST-ish. But if you don't mind and just want to play a few matches to unwind I do highly suggest you pick up Soul at Stake. If you're kind of like me and you're looking for a game that you can just mindlessly grind in and get back to back matches even when you open the game up at 4am, please do not be disappointed when you don't find people playing at that time. Now as a plus if you join their discord and ask in the looking for group chat people are willing to jump into a match with you even at 4 am, so there's that! Unlimited dodges right now are in the game, and as soon as gamblers begin to figure things out they can keep the devil at bay for awhile. Maybe they will change that in a future update. Now for my biggest gripe in the game: [b]The Bell[/b] It is probably the most unbalanced (in a bad way) mechanic in the game and the only thing that makes me consider not playing for a few days. It is an item that stops all movement for gamblers for around 7s, which for people that play FPS's or actually any other game where reaction is key, standing in one spot for 7S not able to do anything besides get stabbed by a lunatic with a knife can be very irritating. The counters to the Bell is to either teleport out immediately if you know he has it or heal after getting hit. Both options require you to have stake generation, but if the devil's stake generation is higher than yours due to teammates or yourself getting hit early, then the bell gives a for sure down via hit bell and then hit right after and the devil will have a bell before you even have a shrine done. The devil can also give a multitude of bells across the map. Five bells from the shop where the gamblers only have a total of three heals for four gamblers. Also when all the gamblers but one is dead they can get a free random item from the shop that includes the bell in a 1v1 situation. But overall if you don't mind either playing during the US East prime time, or the bell in it's current state, I do recommend and strongly suggest you give this game a chance. Gl hf, and have a nice day.