Soul Scathe

One of my favourite game for the genre. It's simple, but... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. PRO visuals and lore fun to play CONS many little imperfections a little raw WANT more environment variety

well worth it. nuff said.

It's a fairly fun game, focusing on the building on your character by defeating the dungeon dwellers in an ever-increasing number of levels. It starts off pretty overwhelming, but you train and buy equipment and spells until the difficultly level is inline with your abilities. You don't lose anything on death, so even failing will slowly build your character up through repetitive, but nice-looking, slog. For the price, it's fine. I feel like it could be a lot more if they added armour, misc. equipment, wands, etc. More interactive objects and looting enemy bodies would be nice.

Great game. As others mentioned, the enemies still do run right up inside you to the poo t that you cannot block anything but hopefully that will get fixed. Have not been able to figure out how to find the legendary spells though. Do you find them randomly in a dungeon? Not quite sure either what the big blue dungeon souls do either. I also see what look like rings near my health bar but not sure what that does either, or the yellow bar beneath my health. Wish there was a tutorial you can access anytime in the main room to remind you what those things are.

It's hard to recommend this game, but I did have fun with it, so I'm marking this review as positive. This game does a lot of good things, the atmosphere is on point, I love the hub world you can chill and upgrade your character in, and the game has a few little things like potions you can break after drinking which is quite satisfying. I think however the biggest drawback of the game is the gameplay, the combat is not physics based so your weapons have no weight, there's no damage bonus for swinging harder, enemies don't have pressure points you can attack (So for example you can't attack their legs or arms to cripple them). Furthermore, your movement in this game is very slow, you don't have a dash, this is fine for the earlier enemies since you can just parry their attacks, but later on in the game you will encounter harder enemies with attacks you cannot parry, and it seems there's no way to dodge other than to just get really close and go around them lol. The bosses are kinda underwhelming too, they're just giant meat sticks you swing your sword at, their attacks also seem very hard to dodge, you can't really parry them or do anything cool in the fights. Funny enough, all of the bosses can be cheesed by just going really close to them to the point where you're practically inside them or directly under their legs. There's also a few bugs that can ruin the experience, I've had a few bugs that forced me to restart the game, such as the second boss's minions not spawning properly, or the game not letting me proceed through the dungeon despite killing all of the enemies. Despite all this, it is fun getting stronger and levelling up your character to the point of creaming the enemies and eventually overpowering the bosses, the spells are also quirky and fun, however I only used like two of them hehe. And hey, releasing a proper singleplayer VR game (Not a wave shooter, not a sandbox and not endless) is always a plus in my book. Overall, soul scathe is an alright game that you can have some fun with, def get it on a sale or discount. I think the developer is on the right track and I have no doubt the next game that comes out will be better. P.S, for the first boss, the giant enemy, when it gets to it's invulnerable phase, you're supposed to have it throw the boulder at the gates and then you can proceed to the rest of the fight. I really think the developer should've made it so that any attack from the giant would break the gate cause I feel like there's no way to tell you're supposed to let it throw a boulder at the gate without looking it up or have it happen by accident lol

Il y a une option pour les gauchers. C'est très bien, sauf que ça ne change pas le contrôleur qui dirige le personnage. Après un post sur le discord du jeu et une réponse, il n'y a aucun moyen de remapper les touches via steam VR. Alors moi perso j’arrive pas à utiliser la main qui fracasse des squellettes à grand coup d'épée et l'utiliser pour me déplacer en même temps. Si il y avait un moyen de passer le déplacement sur la main droite ce serai un vrai bonheur. C'est dommage car le jeu à l'air très bien mais pour le moment il prend la poussière, et surement pour longtemps, dans mon compte steam.

The developer is still updating the game and recently added a 2nd Chapter. After having trouble a tiny amount of trouble finding the starter sword I played a small amount of the first Chapter (about 1 hour). I consider this a solid effort and had a lot of fun on my initial run. There were jump scares and the combat was very satisfying, If you are interested in the genre of dungeon crawlers or rogue like games I would recommend it. BTW The starter sword is in the weapons room on the left behind a green button.