Mortal Shell review
A moody action RPG deeply inspired by Dark Souls that offers plenty of interesting ideas, but they struggle to outweigh its flaws.
- Developer: Cold Symmetry
- Publisher: Playstack
- Release: August 18th
- On: Windows
- From: Epic Games Store first, Steam and GOG in 2021
- Price: £25/€25/$30
Mortal Shell
tries desperately hard to emulate its hero Dark Souls, while also attempting to carve out its own weird niche. Expect a big toad NPC to blurt out something like “Apocryphal intestines lie in the heart of darkness!” while you’re being smacked in the bum by a crazed villager wielding a lute. But scrape away all the spooky-big-words dressing and you’ve got a fairly strong Soulslike beneath the gubbins.