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Wayward Souls

4 out of 5
12 User Ratings
5 Stars
33%
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
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Wayward Souls is a randomly generated action RPG with a heavy focus on the story. Play as seven different heroes, all with their own abilities and playstyles.
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About Wayward Souls

About this game

Wayward Souls is a randomly generated action RPG with a heavy focus on the story. Play as seven different heroes, all with their own abilities and playstyles. Fight through steadily greater hordes of enemies, as you learn about each character and find out what happened in the cursed tower you find yourself in.

Greatly inspired by 90's era action RPGs, but with a faster pace and a focus on randomized replay value.

  • Customize each character with their own upgrades and equipment sets that change their movesets and abilities.
  • Over 100 different monster types. Over 300 hats (IMPORTANT)
  • Unique story events for every playable character.
  • Many different areas, room types, rare rooms, encounters, and secrets.
  • Unlockable game modes, including Endless Mode.
  • Heavy replay value due to randomly generated levels, multiple character types, and randomized enemy groups.

Hero Characters and Abilities

Renee uses her mobility to dash through enemies. Her Power Attack is a kick that stuns, with effects depending on her boots. She frequently finds items that let her blind, stun, or poison enemies. All of these let her perform very damaging backstabs.

Equipment and Upgrade Examples:

  • Mirage Dagger randomly gives her short bursts of stealth during her dashes.
  • Giantstomper Boots upgrade her kicks to send enemies flying far back. Flung enemies will then damage and stun enemies they crash into. The Giantstompers also interrupt larger enemies that are stun resistant.
  • Toadskin Cowters poison enemies that hit her, stunning them after a few seconds.
  • Her Low Blow Upgrade permanently makes it so defeating large enemies will make her next dagger attack stun whatever she hits, even if her slash hits multiple enemies.

Blythe combines durability with a big sword that cleaves a wide area. He has a shield to block enemy attacks and throws axes when he needs a faster or more long-ranged option than his sword provides.

  • Duskhander Sword replaces his default Power Attack's charging slash with a whirlwind spin, hitting enemies over a larger area.
  • Magebane Gauntlets reduce the damage of enemy spells while making his throwing axes destroy any enemy spell they pass through.
  • Stonebird Slab is much more durable than the default shield but makes him move very slowly when holding the shield out to block.
  • Drakefire Oil is an item the Warrior can use to make all his sword swings emit a traveling wave of flame, for a limited time.

Abbie has long-ranged magic attacks that do heavy damage. Her Power Attack uses her staff for shots that are longer range and pierce multiple enemies. In a tough situation, she has limited use spells for both offense and defense.

  • Salamander's Breath Staff turns her magical shots into bursts of flame that pierce even more enemies but have very short range.
  • Tremor Garb gives her a powerful foot stomp that creates a shockwave to stun enemies and destroy enemy projectiles.
  • Manablade Arts lets her summon a sword that does high damage, interrupts enemy attacks, can reflect enemy spells, and has a small chance to stun.
  • The Mage can find powerful one-use scrolls such as Fireball or Lightning Bolt, which inflict massive damage and stun multiple enemies.

Four Additional Characters to unlock, each with their own abilities and story:

  • Cyril the Adventurer, who mixes quick sword attacks with a varied assortment of spells, items, and anti-magical lanterns that burn all nearby foes.
  • Hassan the Spellsword, combines mobility with direct shortsword attacks and fast charging attacks that can stun crowds of enemies.
  • Svala the Cultist, cloaking herself in stealth and blinding enemies to set them up powerful dagger backstabs, with options for more direct damage spells.
  • The fallen Paladin, who has overpowering magic and physical attacks, but has limited options for healing damage he sustains.

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
August 28, 2019
Developer:
Rocketcat Games
Publisher:
Rocketcat Games
Supported Languages:
English
Genres:
Action
Action Roguelike

RPG

Roguelite
Features:
Full controller support
Steam Cloud

Singleplayer

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 7, XP, Vista, 8, and newer
  • Processor: 1.3 ghz
  • Memory: 128 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Requires OpenGL 3.3 or higher
  • Storage: 185 MB available space

Wayward Souls User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 12 ratings
81% of users would recommend this.
4.0

User Ratings Breakdown

5 Stars
33%
5 Stars
33%
4 Stars
42%
4 Stars
42%
3 Stars
17%
3 Stars
17%
2 Stars
8%
2 Stars
8%
1 Stars
0%
1 Stars
0%

Not Recommended

Lex
Verified purchase
+ classes have wildly different gameplay - a bad roguelike: forces you out of dungeon after every boss kill, almost no upgrades or character customization and what is there is very limited and repetitive - minimal and expensive progression between runs - each class has their own story progression - you can kill first boss on the Warrior and you can start a new game as another Warrior in the second location, but it does not apply to the other classes - repetitive because of the points above - charging attack on most classes first makes a slow standard attack (it's the same button) - very clunky to use It looks good on screenshots and has a decent base, but is terribly underbaked.
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Recommended

Skyly
Verified purchase
Was a pretty Fun Game! I love the Pixelstyle and perspektiv
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Recommended

traycleaner
Verified purchase
Great game, shocked that it hasn't gotten more attention. The game play is extremely tight and well made. High level of difficulty at higher levels but it makes you want to master the game.
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Wirth checking out

Waabulo
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The good points - different playable characters each with their own story and playstyle, pixel graphics, decent music, replayability, multiple dungeons and a wide variety of enemies. Some will not like the grinding aspect of this game. Yes, some roguelite aspects. Your mileage may vary if you like this game more than short play throughs. You can sink many hours to obtain 200 hats and going to 100th level in a dungeon - some might like that as value in the game.
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Good game

Fanatical User
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Little slow, but feels like old good game from my childhood. Rougelike-type, didnt finish it yet but i feel like this will be not hard to do so.
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Recommended

Fanatical User
Verified purchase
NIce little soulslike/roguelike mashup.
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Fun pixel based Roguelike

Jafothepanda
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A fun little rogue like that has plenty of progression available. Works well with a controller or mouse and keyboard.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, Wayward Souls is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Wayward Souls is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
Minimum:
  • OS: Windows 7, XP, Vista, 8, and newer
  • Processor: 1.3 ghz
  • Memory: 128 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Requires OpenGL 3.3 or higher
  • Storage: 185 MB available space
81% of Fanatical users recommend Wayward Souls. The average review score is 4/5
Wayward Souls was released on August 28, 2019
Wayward Souls is published by Rocketcat Games
Wayward Souls was developed by Rocketcat Games
Fanatical users tagged Wayward Souls as Action, Action Roguelike, RPG, and Roguelite
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Wayward Souls as Action
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Wayward Souls as Action Roguelike
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Wayward Souls as RPG

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