Undead Souls Reviews

how about some guidelines to the effect of EVERYTHING KILLS YOU IN ONE HIT.....wtf?

What's happening? What's going on? Get instantly killed by the first enemy you encounter. Have this repeat several times. Haven't died enough to unlock another character but at this point it feels like Nuclear Throne with additional BS. Also, thank merciful lord there's an option to disable the camera shake. Which may be the only good thing about this. Edit: Going through my games in 2020 since I have nothing else to do. I thought I judged this game unfairly, but upon playing it some more.. No. I judged it correctly the first time.

COOL INDIE GAME beauty pixel art and so hard to win bizarre monsters with cool weapons good for make a little competition with friends my best score 57 -----and yours?

[b]Summary[/b] An arcade twin-stick slash and shoot game that's asset flipped from "Gun Brothers" and "Massive". [b]My Gripes[/b] [list][*]I wrote a pretty big list in the suggestions. It's lengthy... http://steamcommunity.com/app/667170/discussions/0/1470841715961920074/#c1620599015882084367[/list] [b]Rating[/b] Not broken, but has a long way to go to become something that sustains my attention for more than a few minutes of gameplay. At $10, I just can't recommend it at this time. [b]2/10[/b]

> Spawn > Walk forward > Slash something > Die > Repeat Literally unplayable. I'd say "imagine Nuclear Throne but terrible" but even whatever you'd imagine would be better than this. Avoid.

Edit: Don't buy this game ever, this seller is a shady asset flipper and this is just another example, see Gun Brothers and Massive. What they're trying to do is use a similar style of graphics and gameplay look to that of Nuclear Throne (and the name being misleading to cash in on Dungeon Souls) to sell incomplete asset flips that are the most basic games ever made. In fact, Gun Brothers and Massive have the same boss in both games and the same of some of the mobs in both games. Go spend your money on Enter the Gungeon, Neuro Voider, Nuclear Throne, Blazing Beaks, literally anything else, please, don't support asset flippers. If you don't care about cash in, shady asset flips, read on, there're tons of reasons why you don't want to play this game. Don't buy on sale. I say this because anyone who's been looking at this game will notice that the game goes on sale every other week just about. If the dev wants our money they need to fix their game first and make it playable, for starters, and further make more sound assets to add into the game (same song on repeat from main menu to game to close, no hit sounds, no low health warning, no hit sounds, sub-par explosion sound, so on) and they need to make it not impossible to see anything. Pros: -Not a cash grab I don't think. -Graphically not horrible. -It runs at least. Cons: -No sound diversity -Poor random generation, spawn into area of map in the open and get killed by the 3-4 copies of the toughest enemy in the game. -No enemy diversity, 5 total enemies, vomiting frog (aforementioned toughest enemy), knight, Slime, armored chicken, and explody dude. -Poor hit boxes, enemies hard to hit, but enemies will hit you because your hit box is bigger than theirs (the knight is melee and uses sword will catch you further away than you catch them and they one shot) and the explody enemy explodes so wide you have to be at the farthest possible melee distance to hit them and not instantly die, because the explosion deals your full hit bar in damage. Also to pick up items you have to be in specific spots, which more often than not, you'll never find making you push the button a million times and not know what the item does. -Every time you spawn there's a giant bar of text across the screen for 5+ seconds making your start of a game a bunch of waiting and probably dying since you cannot see. -Control inconsistency. Press E to pick up weapons, but C to pick up items, when you die it says you can push Enter or X to retry, but X doesn't work and Enter sends you to main screen. -Lack of stuff, in fact, there's so little in the current state other than core game play that it's the reason this is such a short list of cons. There are a few bugs, but literally nothing big or game breaking, because spawning is game breaking in the current state of the game. At current state it's not worth $10, I'd say $5 MAX, until it improves. I bought on sale, hoping would be fun, but was solidly disapointed the feeling I got playing this was that of playtesting a game a friend would have made using bought assets.

I am so disappointed with the developers of Undead Souls. I'd had this title on my wishlist for a while now, so when I saw it at 90% off the $9.99 price tag today, I didn't even hesitate. Apparently, I should have. Now, it's important to note that I hadn't read anything about asset flips or the poor reviews from Gun Brothers and Massive, so I really went into this blind and optimistic. I love a well-done roguelike, and top-down twinstick shooters are my jam, so I was expecting one thing but got something else entirely. My major gripe with Undead Souls is that it's completely unplayable. I found the controls to be unresponsive with a notable delay between button presses and action. However, the swarming opponents have no such delay in their activity and made short work of my 7 hit points, usually before I'd even realized that I'd been hit with something. To say that opponents are seriously overpowered under the circumstances would be a tragic understatement. The starting angel character fights with a sword, but the player still utilizes twinstick combat to aim in the direction of the swing. Unfortunately, hitboxes seem to be out of whack, because try as I might, I only connected about half the time. I stuck it out long enough to unlock the jester character, thinking that maybe a projectile weapon would even the odds a bit, but it did no such thing. Graphics and sound didn't even rate as mediocre. In fact, while I was playing, or attempting to play, those weren't even tracking for me. I had to go back in and pay close attention to even determine that they weren't worth my time because I was so overwhelmed and frustrated trying to get the mechanics to work. I was able to alter the zoom and disable screen shake, but that made little to no difference in gameplay for me. Under no circumstances can I recommend this game, not even at the 99 cent price I paid today. In fact, I'm submitting my refund request to Valve for this unplayable game the very second that I publish my review. With titles like Nuclear Throne, Enter the Gungeon, Streets of Rogue, Gatling Gears, Crimson, Feral Fury, NeuroVoider, Zombie Party, Hero Siege, Kill to Collect, Android Cactus, Utopia 9, Necropolis, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Dead Cells, and Full Mojo Rampage, you're sure to find a worthy roguelike or twin-stick shooter for your library. This, however, is not the roguelike you're looking for. ;)