System of Souls Reviews

truly the dark souls of system shock games

I've quit playing rather quickly because I got annoyed by the platforming. I expected puzzles, not precision platforming.

This is horrible lmao long story short: imagine a portal ripoff that managed to also ripoff every portal-inspired game at once and do it horribly (poor idea = poor execution = what's the point of making this) this game is also bad from a technical side of things, those physics made the gameplay even worse (i think physics is the first thing you need to perfect when working on a puzzle platformer), there's literally no way to change the sensitivity so you'll have to deal with it on your own. if you look at this game from the pov of someone who has played enough of puzzle platformers, i wanna say that using textboxes as a way to progress is NOT it, i can't spend time just reading through the enourmours amounts of text when i've got a chamber to solve lmao, i'd recommend adding some kind of a voice over with a textbox that's used for captions i still have no idea what this story is about by the way if you're a fan of portal and would like to check fan games, this is not it lmao, there are much better alternatives you could check out

So far playing through, this is a fantastic game. It feels extremely polished when it comes to the visuals, and the soundtrack goes nicely with the game. The puzzles feel rather simple however super fun. The dialog and story seems really interesting as well. I love all puzzle games and this is no exception however, it feels frustrating with how much the cube spins while holding and dropping it. For some of the puzzles in the early parts of the game the hardest part is placing the cube on the button due to the physics carrying it in different unexpected directions due to the cube spinning while holding it. I also feel that the mouse sensitive needs to be a bit more adjustable as the default is a bit too fast but the next option down is too slow. Still a really great game and can't wait to play more. 7/10

I rarely quit a game after one hour but this one managed to get one my nerve real quick. Came in for a chill puzzle game experience and got a frustrating first-person plate-former. Not for me. Too bad because it's visually pleasing with a nice Portal / Talos atmosphere.

Just giving this a review because it only has a handful so i want to try to help you for a potential purchase decission. It's a mediocre "Portal-Like" Game. Take the typical formular, you get from Chamber to Chamber solving the puzzles. If you like this Portal Chamber playstyle, i would say give it a try if its on Sale, otherwise the game isn't worth it. The Game has some issues: - There is no narration, you have to read the Story by yourself (That wouldn't be to bad but, more factors play into this - The Text is way to fast to read properly, i missed like half of the instruction and story, also it feels like the descriptions is often nonsensical - You have to watch videos/cutscenes and read text at the same time, it would really help to have a narrator for these The controls felt very clunky most of the time, for me it only displayed my XBox controls and ignored my Keyboard entirely. Maybe i could have avoided this by unplugging my Controller. In the end its basically not good enough for a thumbs up, but also not bad enough for a thumbs down, but well, what you gonna do.