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Their Flesh is Your Armor. Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Survival demands superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Possess lost warriors, track down hidden sanctums of the devout, and face formidable foes.

Mortal Shell is a souls-like, dark fantasy and action game developed by Cold Symmetry and published by Playstack.
Released on August 18th 2021 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian.

It has received 8,596 reviews of which 5,956 were positive and 2,640 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 2.49€ on Steam with a 90% discount.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1 or newer
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290
  • Storage: 12 GB available space

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May 2025
Not bad for a mid tier souls-like game, but! rather than character design and some game play mechanics I couldn't find any other positive aspects. if you want to get it, buy it only in discount, and 100% completion requires the dlc and lots of replaying it. All in all it got its pros and cons, mostly cons but game play wise speaking you'll have fun for a few hours, not for 60 hours like me
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April 2025
Short, mid tier souls-like game. Game has some problems but still good fun. Only recommend buying in discount though.
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March 2025
~ GAMEPLAY ~ 🔲 Boring 🔲 Rock Paper Scissors 🔲 Fun ✅ Hmm.......... 🔲 Entertaining 🔲 Ace 🔲 Godlike ~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal ✅ Hard 🔲 A challenge to be reckoned ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh ✅ Normal 🔲 Very Good 🔲 An original artistic direction 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Some lore 🔲 It's there for people who want it ✅ Well written 🔲 Leading to more in-depth researches/thoughts 🔲 A model to get inspired by ~ LENGTH ~ 🔲 0 (No story) ✅ Short 🔲 Average 🔲 Long 🔲 To infinity and beyond ~ MUSIC ~ ✅ Just filling noises/No music 🔲 Trivial and uneventful 🔲 Good and/or fitting the game's artistic dispositions 🔲 Memorable 🔲 Transcending whispers of a forgotten world ~ INTEREST ~ 🔲 I would rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy 🔲 Repetitive and/or uninspired ✅ A good moment 🔲 Sticking out of the pack 🔲 You will remember it long after ~ REPLAYABILITY ~ ✅ A one-time experience 🔲 Only for achievements 🔲 If you wait a few months/years (or with mods) 🔲 Definitely 🔲 Infinitely replayable (or almost)
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Feb. 2025
Pretty good souls like. Have no idea what the hell is happening in the story or the environment so that makes it even more like one. I like the unique mechanic about hardening the shell, although the game can get a bit easy if you know how to use your shell correctly. You mostly just harden your shell to avoid or tank a hit instead of just dodging, it kinda takes no skill. All the classes and weapons are fun (except for foundling). And the cycle gamemode is also fun to play (unless you're the foundling). I think the bosses are cool and fun, although I feel with the hardening they can be dealt with easy. Definitely liked the ice one the most. Pretty fun game, unless you're the founding (don't be the foundling)
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Dec. 2024
I played and finished this game on console twice. I don't leave reviews but when I saw that this game had a Mixed recent score I felt I must leave my take. It's honestly one of the best souls iterations and I often return to play it. I see a lot of reviews talk about the stone mechanics or farming plants too much, honestly it's a bit much to leave a negative review for. The game doesn't force you to farm or play a broken build and the difficulties lay in the fact that failing is so punishing since you have to kill everything again. Having more resources to heal yourself after every enemy killed and brute forcing your way through the game by over farming is a choice. Using the stone mechanics becomes needed when facing more then a single enemy. Boss fights are a learning curve and require near perfect execution like dark souls. I highly recommend it and remember its under 14G storage easy to keep it installed and come back to it if your other favorite games start to bore you.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Mortal Shell is currently priced at 2.49€ on Steam.

Mortal Shell is currently available at a 90% discount. You can purchase it for 2.49€ on Steam.

Mortal Shell received 5,956 positive votes out of a total of 8,596 achieving a rating of 6.80.
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Mortal Shell was developed by Cold Symmetry and published by Playstack.

Mortal Shell is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Mortal Shell is not playable on MacOS.

Mortal Shell is not playable on Linux.

Mortal Shell is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Mortal Shell. Explore additional content available for Mortal Shell on Steam.

Mortal Shell does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Mortal Shell does not support Steam Remote Play.

Mortal Shell is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Mortal Shell PEGI 16
6.8
5,956
2,640
Game modes
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Online players
116
Developer
Cold Symmetry
Publisher
Playstack
Release 18 Aug 2021
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