Release Date: October 25, 2023
An action adventure game with survival horror elements, inspired by Silent Hill. Stray Souls is a TPP game telling the story of Daniel - a teenager targeted by a mysterious cult in the town of Aspen Falls.
Stray Souls is a survival horror action adventure game - it was inspired by iconic works of horror, its soundtrack composed by Peter Wicher (Visage) and Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series, The Medium). It's the debut game of Jukai, an indie Polish studio founded in 2022.
The game's protagonist is Daniel, an unremarkable teenager who, on his eighteenth birthday, receives inheritance from his grandmother, making him the heir to a manor in Aspen Falls.
Though it initially seems like a dream, it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Daniel soon learns the city is cursed and home to a mysterious cult.
Stray Souls is a third-person game, mostly focusing on exploring the town of Aspen Falls and its surroundings. Our main objective is to learn about Daniel's past. We'll get to make important decisions that shape his personality.
Players will visit various locations (a forest, dark streets, the aforementioned manor), examine numerous items and figure out how to use them. Stray Souls features many puzzles requiring manipulating objects (setting gears, clocks, etc.).
Combat is a large part of the game - Aspen Falls is home to many nightmarish creatures. Daniel will need to fight against undead, multi-armed monsters or massive beasts. Though he's not defenseless and can wield firearms, oftentimes the best solution is to avoid combat. We can sneak past some enemies, but sometimes our only option is to run away. Due to limited resources, we must be mindful of each encounter.
Many elements of the game are random, making Stray Souls a different experience every playthrough. These elements include different item and monster spawns, changing weather and unexpected supernatural events.
The game runs on the Unreal Engine 5. It uses MetaHuman technology, ensuring photorealistic facial expressions.
Platforms:
PC Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X/S
Developer: Jukai Studio
Publisher: Versus Evil
Age restrictions: 18+
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System Requirements for Stray Souls Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5 GHz / AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon R9 380 or better, 40 GB HDD, Windows 10.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-8400 2.8 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 6 GB GeForce GTX 1060 / 8 GB Radeon RX 590 or better, 40 GB HDD, Windows 10.
Game Ratings for Stray Souls Video Game.
Rectify Gaming: 3.5 / 10
There are hundreds of games out there that are more worth your time than Stray Souls is. This bizarre, disappointing, and messy experience takes inspiration from but ultimately disrespects all the survival horror greats.
Garage Band Gamers: 4 / 10 by Chad Johnson
In the Silent Hill fan community, most of the post Team Silent games are shit on regularly and looked at like bastard children. I personally loved most of the entries, even if they lacked that spark that made the originals so damn satisfying. Initially, this felt like one of the best Western developed games in the series without the name attached, but by the time the credits rolled, I would say Stray Souls is only beaten out by how bad Shattered Memories was.
IGN: 4 / 10
Despite a genuinely unsettling introductory chapter, Stray Souls is an ambitious but unsatisfying horror game that never quite gets going. Its characters are shallow and uninteresting, and while the sights and sounds of its world can be impressive, the mystery that unravels within it is told mostly through boring exposition dumps and left unsatisfyingly dangling. With poor optimization, zero polish, and some of the dullest bosses I've ever had the displeasure of fighting, Stray Souls is its own worst enemy, destroying its own subtlety with inelegant scares and tedious combat.
Average score from votes.
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