Recently, in this very publication, the call went out for the death of the Souls-like, and yes, maybe that particular seam is looking a bit mined out right now. Dreary Dark Souls has a spunky cousin, however, that was never released on PC (though rumours persist), by the name of Bloodborne. It’s fast, it’s aggressive, it features guns and transforming weapons, and it’s a major influence on Steelrising.
You step into the porcelain skin of Aegis, a gynoid automaton with a steady hand for on-fleek eye makeup and whose buckled court shoes have an outrageous high heel. She is bodyguard to Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born queen of France and apocryphal milkmaid-fetishist with strong views on what the poor should consume. Allegedly. Her Majesty and a friend are trapped inside the palace of Saint Cloud outside Paris just as the rabble are revolting, and fear the great unwashed might not be the only thing attempting to feel the cool breeze of emancipation, as the king’s new robotic security forces have slaughtered all the previous guards and now patrol the palace grounds, letting nobody in or out.
Marie Antoinette, naturellement, wants to know what’s going on, but rather than sneaking out herself and playing Metal Gear Solid: Cake Eater in her gigantic dress, she dispatches Aegis to Paris to act as her agent there. Our robotic hero then chops and blasts her way through the mechanical hordes, collecting resources (Essence), upgrades, and new weapons along the way.
PHYRE BRIGADE
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SUNDOWNER
Wipe out a cult with one bullet in CHILDREN OF THE SUN
KENWAY AHEAD
Smooth sailing and pearly whites in ASSASSIN'S CREED IV BLACK FLAG
COUNTER INTUITIVE
PICK & POKE your way through this gorgeous tabletop roguelite
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Whatever happened to MULTI-GPU setups?
MICROPHONES
A good microphone can be the difference between a professional sounding triumph, or a crackly, tinny disaster
BORING PLATFORMER
In a good way! The superb drilling of PEPPER GRINDER is sublimely chaotic
MEIER'S BASTARDISATION
MILLENNIA attempts a spirited but messy coup to Civ's throne
LOOSE MORALS
BROKEN ROADS: a cerebral narrative adventure
CROWN WARS: THE BLACK PRINCE
Tactical medieval combat with a gory edge
NO REST FOR THE WICKED
One of the smartest Soulslikes I've played in a long time