Tormented Souls
Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
Tormented Souls is a survival horror, horror and puzzle game
developed by Dual Effect and Abstract Digital
and published by PQube.
Released on August 26th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 5,539 reviews of which 5,077 were positive and 462 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. π
The game is currently priced at 0.99β¬ on Steam and has a 95% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: 64 bit Windows 10 / 8 / 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 550 Ti / Radeon HD 6790 2GB VRAM*
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible soundcard
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This game was truly horror. The puzzles were challenging but somewhat begging for me to look up the solutions. Honestly the story was decent which is rare in horror games. Each enemy was unique in a way that had me looking for any hint to avoid them. Fixed cameras are always building fear and I have to say our character not being over powered with too much ammo for the strongest weapon is great. I would advise playing this nearly blind (with a guide if you feel you can't figure out where to go or what to do). Most fun I had was running around macho with a powerful weapon just to hear it click and I start running to the nearest door. Can't wait for the sequel.
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Things I really liked about this game: - visuals - enemy and environment design - a lot of puzzles, pretty indepth ones too Things I had trouble with: - enemies do heavy damage and have crazy big hitboxes - theyre so fast - when you exit and re-enter a room, they don't reset to their spawn point - the persistent pursuing enemy will despawn however if you exit/re-enter - very few resources - I died so fast and hard the game didnt realise, so the game over screen didn't pop up - Protag VA very out of place, takes you out of the experience a little Conclusion: I'm bad at the game Good game for people who want a hardcore survival horror experience
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this game is pretty much a love letter to Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone in the Dark. I loved the tank controls and fixed camera angles, and this game has some serious survival horror elements to it. However, it seems the development was led by a small team, and as such there are certain bugs and unfinished bits throughout the game. Specifically, the ending was really meh, and the voice acting could have been done better. 8/10 and defo worth it, although by no means perfect.
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This is a fun game in the style of the early Resident Evil games and Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare. The biggest differences are that it can be a little less clear on where to go when you need to backtrack (Map could use some more identifiers) and this games puzzles are a lot harder. Personally, I find if I have to spend more than a couple of minutes thinking about a puzzle, then i'm not interested in tormenting my mind with it, but I get others enjoy that. I resorted to a guide for a bunch of the solutions, as well as which room to backtrack too to save me scouring the entire place myself. Like in older games, the camera does change angles on you and you have no control over it, you can't rotate your stick to look around. There were plenty of times where I would go back and forth and all I wanted to do was go straight because the quick camera changes were throwing me off. I don't mind this style, the game wasn't very difficult from a combat perspective and I don't feel the camera angles ever screwed me over when I was in a fight or by a trap. I didn't buy the voice acting/story but i'm not easily bothered by this. I mean, I did play all of the Resident Evil games and they are a joke in that regard. If you like the early Resident Evil/Alone in the Dark: New Nightmare era and don't mind some thinky puzzles, definitely check this one out.
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A nice surprise of a survival horror game! So I didn't know much about this game until I heard rumblings of it and then played the demo last year. And now I finally play it and I can confidently say, that its my new GOTY of 2021! To start off with the visuals. The game reminded me a lot of the Resident Evil 1 remake in its lighting and visual design of the environments. The fact that the game takes place mostly in a mansion definitely adds to that and I quite enjoyed it. The only thing that isn't the best are the character models that look a little too uncanny valley, but it is a AA title so I'm not going to knock it too much. While the game makes you think it will be like Resident Evil it actually quickly turns more into Silent Hill as you unlock the later areas with blood soaked walls and an excessive amount of gore in the environment. You always just feel uneasy as you're moving through the rooms, like something is going to pop out at you and with the fixed camera angle, it adds to the uncertainty as you don't know what will be waiting for you in a room when you first enter it. While I tend to prefer the over the shoulder, third person or first person camera styles in horror games generally, I do admire how they used the fixed camera angles here and some of the angles they chose when in certain rooms added to that uneasy feel. Kind of like the bathroom scene at the beginning of Silent Hill 2. The atmosphere has this oppressive feel as you feel trapped in this large mansion with no one to really help you. You will find plenty of dead bodies lying on the floor or on operating tables throughout the mansion/hospital as well as blood and guts in various corners. You can clearly see the bodies have been butchered and messed with, making you wander about who or what exactly did this. The game also features a couple of jump scares throughout the game and while I am usually not a fan of jump scares personally, but they were pretty well done here, happening when you least expect them. One of them in particular definitely gave me a jolt when it happened. Next we have the music and sound design which is really well done overall. The OST has a lot of beautiful piano melodies while also having a lot of screeching intense tracks that really build up the games atmosphere and make you feel like you're in a hostile environment. The sounds the monsters make are disturbing and the loud moans they scream out when you kill them really sends a shiver down you're spine. The voice acting though isn't the best with their only being a few characters with dialogue, including your main character. While I would have preferred better voice acting, it added to the nostalgia a little as these types of games never had the best voice acting to begin with. The sound design overall is very well done. Moving onto gameplay, it plays very much like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, with its gameplay loop of exploration, combat and puzzles. I enjoyed exploring the mansion with all of its nooks and cranny's, finding secret passages and plenty of things in the environment. The puzzles were enjoyable too with some pretty brain buster ones to solve. While it does get a bit much towards the end, I found the puzzles to be another great aspect of the game. The combat plays very much like I said before, akin to Resident Evil and Silent Hill in that you ready your weapons before attacking. The weapons you find feel very makeshift and unconventional because there are no traditional weapons lying around. You a get a nail gun in place of a pistol, a shotgun which is literally just some pipes duck taped together, an electric lance that can be used to shock enemies from close range and a good old fashioned crowbar. Unlike Silent Hill, you can't really get through the game with just the crowbar as most of the enemies are melee based in their attacks, and your character can only take a few hits before dying. The best strategy is to often shoot the enemies and when their down, hit them with your crowbar to finish them off. The weapons overall felt good to use, especially the shogun which has a nice punch to it whenever you fire. Your inventory is also thankfully unlimited and with clear categories of key items, resources and files. I also like how the map of the mansion is an actual physical map you have to select in your inventory and rotated around to read. While the map does mark some key items, I feel like it could have also marked things like ammo or health items you missed which is a QOL feature that many modern horror games use. The enemy design is another thing I want to talk about before the story section. The enemies all look like Frankenstein like monsters with various blades and spikes stuck to their arms and bodies. At the same time their torsos and faces all look butchered and mangled like their barely holding together physically. While the various enemy types look samey after a while, towards the end they do introduce some new ones that look very different which I appreciated. Some enemy types feel redundant though like the wall enemies who have such giant blades for arms that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you shouldn't go passed them. Dealing with them is as simple as walking up next to them and just hitting them with you're crowbar until they die, and they can't fight back from that angle, so their inclusion in the game feels very pointless. About halfway through the game they introduce a stalker enemy. The design just looks really lame and I didn't find it intimidating at all. You do find out later the story reason, why the stalker enemy is there which I won't spoil, but overall it just felt redundant from a gameplay perspective. The best thing to do is when you enter a room and hear the stalker enemies theme is to just go out and come back in again, as they usually will disappear. It just a waste of resources fighting it. Finally we can talk about the story. Caroline receives a weird photograph of two twin girls, addressed to her. She travels to the mansion from where it was sent only for her to be knocked out and then wakes up in a bath tub naked and hooked up to a machine. She must now find the missing girls and escape! As you explore the mansion you will find dairy entries and files from the family members that used to live in this mansion. The story they tell is very sad and disturbing and it adds context to much of what is going on. The notes are short and don't feel long winded to read, so I recommend reading all of them as it enhances the story overall. It gave me a lot of Silent Hill 3 vibes as you learn about a cult that controlled this family and their intentions that are evil in nature. Overall, I really loved the story as it took elements from many horror games but did its own thing with it. It makes me excited for the sequel they announced and how that game could play out. In conclusion, I fully recommend this game to anyone who likes survival horror games and wants to play something new! As I said at the top of this review, its my new GOTY of 2021 beating out RE8!
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Online players
58
Developer
Dual Effect,
Abstract Digital
Publisher
PQube
Release
26 Aug 2021
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