Usurper: Soulbound

So I've played for about an hour so far and I really want to like this game but I feel that it falls short in a few ways that impacts my enjoyment of the game. I am giving this a positive review because I'm sure there's a decent handful of people out there that will enjoy this in it's current state, and I also feel like this could eventually be a really good rogue-lite. But right now the main issue I have is I just really don't enjoy the combat all that much. Overall the game is pretty solid. The combat is definitely quite challenging, albeit a bit slow, especially when you're up against multiple enemies. I don't mind the art style either. The game feels a little old school which I think was the intention. I do however have a couple small complaints. First thing, menu navigation with controller is a little slow because you have to use a slow moving cursor to select your options, so I end up just using my mouse when I'm visiting the shop, changing settings, etc. But I do think the gam...

An interesting isometric RPG with roguelike elements in which you, like Vettel from the FEAR series, play as a spirit that can take over your enemies! Reliable top-down adventure, clearly inspired by the "genre like Souls".Unique "USURPING" ability to Possess enemies and gain new abilities.Mix of hand crafted and randomly generated environments.

After playing for around 5 hours (multiple playthroughs) I've gathered some thoughts. It's an okayish game right now. It needs more content and a good amount of polish but I've encountered no bugs that made it impossible to play. Also I'm giving a positive review because I like the concept and I hope, that there is more to come (more enemies, different locations, and I am especially looking at you Roguelike-mode!) I hope to come back to this game and find a solid and polished game but for now, here are some things that I would change or improve a little bit and some bugs I've encountered. [h2]REMEMBER, it is early access![/h2] [h2]Things I think should be looked after: [/h2] [list] [*] make health globes despawn slower. those few seconds are a joke if you are in combat because you are kinda slow and may not be able to grab them because of other enemies. [*] make the map a little bit brighter and add more descriptions as there are weird red dots all over the map and I have absolutel...

Ugly art that gives me a headache when trying to look at anything besides my character, and all enemies have tracking attacks so you literally cannot dodge because they'll do a full 360 spin during their attack animation and hit you anyways.

If soulsbornes and roguelikes had a baby. Yes, soulsbornes already have a lot of roguelike elements, but this one takes it up a notch: you can't grind. You keep the gold you earn after death, to re-equip yourself for the new run, but everything you don't spend gets lost. The only way to get more powerful, is to defeat mini-bosses that guard special orbs, that give you a skillpoint. Aside that, you can ursurp better bodies, but in order to do that - you still have fight and win. You'll almost never fight a single enemy, and sometimes you'll be facing 5-6 at the same time, depending on how unlucky your run is. Given that there's no real meta progression - player skill is your total ceiling. Sometimes you'll miss a single parry and that'll send you to the spiral of death. If you can live with this - moment to moment combat is fun and engaging, and weapons are different enough between each other to matter, however there aren't many of them at least in the first dungeon level. Then again,...

Right from the get-go, every single action key — except for movement — stopped working during the second phase of tutorial, essentially resulting in a soft-lock. I get that it's Early Access, but such severe game-breaking bugs in the first 10 minutes make this a big no-no.

A rouge-lite game with body snatching mechanics. Combat is very much souls like so you have to time you dodges and attacks and I found it engaging and fun. Also going from the crypt to the forest area was great and it added variety to the environment, weapons and the bodies you can possess. One thing that would be a great is the addition of online play as the game has only local multiplayer. But overall recommended for rouge-lite and souls fans.

The game is great in it's current state but it basically has zero replayability (once you finished the content) and roughly 3-4 hours worth of content, so keep that in mind when purchasing the game. The roadmap doesn't look too promising either as it states that only one more dungeon floor is being added but the design of the game makes it seem that there would be at least two more completely different dungeons are planned and also there's a huge door that cannot access right now. Anyway I mainly bought it to play with my buddy on couch-coop buddy and we had fun, tho only 3 hours that is then there was nothing more to explore. The idea is great, it's basically top-down mortal shell but not that extremely hard so it's comfortable to play too. The rogue-like let's you start a new run and you can play as any enemy that you have previously "overtaken" as long as you have the gold coins for it. But you can change the equipment you want to take with you too so you can create a mix of charac...

Once upon a time I played a similar game on my phone and it pulled me in very much. I was looking for something similar to the vastness of the Internet for a PC, but nothing clung to. I liked this game, very good for early access. I like the interaction with bodies, as well as the animation of the movements and abilities of the character. During the fight there is time not to think a lot about further actions due to the slowdown, I think this is great. I also liked the locations. I recommend to buy.

I havent gotten a chance to play a ton yet. ive been away from my desktop today, but I wanted to give it a try as soon as I could. its a wonderful little game. it runs surprisingly well on my laptop with its low end specs. I love the art style and the atmosphere. Ive run into a couple bugs, for instance, my only real issue is that the cursor and the GUI buttons dont line up. the event trigger for the button seems to be up and to the right of each button. ill continue to update this review as I go. So far, im really liking it!\ Edit: The issue with the on screen buttons appears to been exclusive to my laptop. On my normal pc, everything is running smoothly so far. The game is running great and so far, I love the style and combat. Ive seen people say that the combat is slow, but so far, I do not share that opinion. seems to be a nice change of pace for me.