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Soulstice
Explore a dark world brimming with hidden mysteries, master a diverse combat system, and inhabit the dual forces of two sisters in a coming-of-age fantasy story with fast-paced action, vicious enemies and breathtaking boss fights.
Details
- Released
- September 20, 2022
- Developer
- Reply Game Studio
- Genres
- Action · Role-playing (RPG) · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure · Horror
- Publisher
- Modus Games
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
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Soulstice Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
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Soulstice is a new hack-and-slash adventure RPG from Replay Game Studios that's set itself apart from other games in the genre by wearing its inspirations
Soulstice looks quite nice, with Briar and Lute standing out as the most visually appealing and interesting characters. The various enemy designs work for what they are, and the stages are of high quality despite the themes blending together and feeling like one long stage.
Demonic, world-ending invasions are a hell of a thing. Thankfully, a god, devil hunter, umbra witch, etc., is usually around when they go down. However, those need to make way for Briar and Lute the Chimera, who are attempting to save the world, even if it hates them, in Soulstice…
The pieces of an enjoyable experience are all here, but unfortunately, Soulstice save itself on the Deck just yet.
It’s a chaotic push and pull between ecstatic fun and dull annoyance that honestly drives Soulstice, but it’s nonetheless worth checking out.
Soulstice is an excellent first effort in what must be an enormously difficult genre. Just imagine the work that must go into crafting such big, challenging action set pieces and leave the player feeling satisfied rather than infuriated. Soulstice isn’t perfect, but I hope the development team does stick at this, because they’re on to something special.
Soulstice's overwritten story and repetitive second half somewhat dull the catharsis of its glorious throwback hack-and-slash combat, but it's still great fun.
“Soulstice's terrible camera holds back an otherwise ambitious and inspired action game.”
DMC meets Dark Souls in this grungy action adventure.
Soulstice does itself no favours by borrowing heavily from Bayonetta, and then falls short of its inspiration in every area. At best this is a functional but uninspired character action game. At worst it's a poor appreciation of the genre's finer points, stacking up systems that detract from the purity of exhilarating combat.
Soulstice pulls a great deal of inspiration from the Devil May Cry series, especially that of its reboot in DmC. Briar and Lute, two sisters fused into a single body, must investigate a tear in the fabric of reality, spewing forth deadly creatures and powerful wraiths, all while attempting to not be