Enter a world of nightmares in this third person, action-horror, inspired by the classics of the genre. Fight terrifying creatures, solve mind-bending puzzles, and unravel a horrid family secret to expose the chilling truth behind your existence. Unlock the secrets hidden within the haunted town of Aspen Falls, featuring gruesome enemy encounters, epic bosses, cunning puzzles, and a deep story where not everyone is who they seem. Play as Daniel – an average teenager whose life is forever changed after inheriting the home of his estranged grandmother and meeting a mysterious woman with intimate knowledge about his family, the house, and its shocking connection to his past. The gameplay elements inspired by classic horror combat with souls-like precision, put a fresh spin on the modern action-horror genre.
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i wish i could give it zero stars, unironically might be the single worst game i've ever played
Son, I need you to look at my poopoo stain on my man diaper after I shoot you.
You ever wonder how we have comedy games and horror games, but not comedy horror games? Worry no more; your day has come.
Stray Souls is a horror game developed by a guy too crap to stay at Bloober Team. Constructed using unreal engine store assets, metahuman technology, and AI, it weaves a tale of a horror protagonist so goddamn fruity he'd be embroiled in a James Somerton plagarism scandal and his vaguely incestuous cannibal sister that'd make The Coffin of Andy and Leyley seem quaint. If that sounds like it's kicking down the barriers of taboo, it doesn't end there, as the game also asks questions like "what if a grandma was weird?"
This is truly one of the most fucking baffling games of all time. Its opening is the first and probably last piece of media to be directly inspired by Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy. Your character is 7 feet tall. He's using tinder on a computer from 1998. You shoot demons with a golden desert eagle (later revealed to be the gun that JOHN WILKES BOOTH USED TO KILL ABRAHAM LINCOLN??????????????) as you shout epic win quips. It's a survival horror game with the ammo economy of a penultimate resident evil level, except at the final boss where its very possible to softlock yourself out doing all of the three endings. The motion capture is all wrong and your characters idle facial animations look somewhere between a guy in LA Noire trying to lie and you really needing to hold in your piss. Your sister remembers being shot by your dad but not the part where she was eating a human body as she was being shot. They used AI art and the result is a legally indistinct Bryan Cranston with 8 fingers.
All of this to serve a finale that, to nobodies surprise, suicide themed. Turns out you can take a hack out of Bloober Team but you can't take Bloober Team out of a hack.
The studio behind this game shut down a few days ago leaving behind only a legal threat against people who damaged the reputation of the game. What they mean by this is that people found out the director was retweeting 13/50-tier racism and transphobia. They could also mean the numerous videos about the game being shit. Either way they'll probably be SLAPP'd down.
If they don't, however, please enjoy the streams by my pals at the Kemono Friendzone while you can. They pay me in lint to say this.
https://youtu.be/olFpQ_nJ3_0
https://youtu.be/6-VZ57B4BnI
Stray Souls is a horror game developed by a guy too crap to stay at Bloober Team. Constructed using unreal engine store assets, metahuman technology, and AI, it weaves a tale of a horror protagonist so goddamn fruity he'd be embroiled in a James Somerton plagarism scandal and his vaguely incestuous cannibal sister that'd make The Coffin of Andy and Leyley seem quaint. If that sounds like it's kicking down the barriers of taboo, it doesn't end there, as the game also asks questions like "what if a grandma was weird?"
This is truly one of the most fucking baffling games of all time. Its opening is the first and probably last piece of media to be directly inspired by Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy. Your character is 7 feet tall. He's using tinder on a computer from 1998. You shoot demons with a golden desert eagle (later revealed to be the gun that JOHN WILKES BOOTH USED TO KILL ABRAHAM LINCOLN??????????????) as you shout epic win quips. It's a survival horror game with the ammo economy of a penultimate resident evil level, except at the final boss where its very possible to softlock yourself out doing all of the three endings. The motion capture is all wrong and your characters idle facial animations look somewhere between a guy in LA Noire trying to lie and you really needing to hold in your piss. Your sister remembers being shot by your dad but not the part where she was eating a human body as she was being shot. They used AI art and the result is a legally indistinct Bryan Cranston with 8 fingers.
All of this to serve a finale that, to nobodies surprise, suicide themed. Turns out you can take a hack out of Bloober Team but you can't take Bloober Team out of a hack.
The studio behind this game shut down a few days ago leaving behind only a legal threat against people who damaged the reputation of the game. What they mean by this is that people found out the director was retweeting 13/50-tier racism and transphobia. They could also mean the numerous videos about the game being shit. Either way they'll probably be SLAPP'd down.
If they don't, however, please enjoy the streams by my pals at the Kemono Friendzone while you can. They pay me in lint to say this.
https://youtu.be/olFpQ_nJ3_0
https://youtu.be/6-VZ57B4BnI
This was a hilarious but also incredibly depressing experience. There is so much content here (though there are lots of flipped assets as well) and you can just feel the amount of earnest effort that was put into certain things (such as the main character's voice acting despite the bad writing) but the execution is botched so badly in so many ways. It feels like it was made by an amateur with no sense of good direction playing with a AAA toy box.
Fecal man is a horror icon though.
Fecal man is a horror icon though.
Sucking a log of shit like a dick.
one might say that Akira Yamaoka is the Snoop Dogg of video game music, showing up in shit way below his pedigree as long as he gets paid. his own personal Corey Feldman feature is his work for Stray Souls. Stray Souls is a UE 5 asset flip made by an ex-Bloober uber-racist with no real ideas or vision beyond being sorta like other games you know and FINALLY giving Silent Hill a Dark Souls dodge roll. don't worry: it has lots of AI generated slop in it too! it's got that Slender fangame pacing and design, a nauseating camera, what could be defined as animation, and a 'the cake is a lie' reference in this video game released in late 2023. tbh, if it weren't for the devs being transphobic art thieves i'd support it for being a lil funny but there's no heart behind this slop. cutscenes goofy tho!!! worth watching but not playing.