Fit check
Is Souldiers worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Metroidvania players who want exploration tied to hidden paths and treasures
- Action-platformer fans who enjoy parrying, dodging, and varied enemy encounters
- Retro game players looking for a fantasy adventure with environmental puzzles
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a low-pressure adventure may hit a wall when combat demands parries, dodges, and repeated fights against tough bosses
- Players who prefer short, linear stages may lose momentum in the interconnected world and its secret pathways
- Players looking for a purely modern visual style may bounce off the deliberately 16-bit presentation
Our take on Souldiers
The likely bounce point is the combat loop: players must combine attacks with parries and dodges while adapting to changing enemies. Those expecting exploration to carry the experience without demanding fights may hit that wall before the expanding movement system becomes central.
What is Souldiers?
Souldiers follows soldiers transported to Terragaya, a mystical realm on the edge of the afterlife, where they must find the Guardian before moving onward.
Progress combines melee combat with parries, dodges, skill and equipment upgrades, environmental puzzles, platforming, and exploration. The world is interconnected, with hidden routes, treasures, bosses, and detailed 16-bit pixel art. Movement expands over time, opening access to new areas and allowing more complex traversal. Enemies form a varied roster that requires changing combat approaches as the adventure continues. The game combines retro platforming and metroidvania exploration with soulslike combat in a handcrafted fantasy setting.
How Souldiers plays
- 01Melee combat
- Fighting includes attacks, parries, dodges, equipment upgrades, and adjustable combat styles.
- 02Interconnected world
- Terragaya contains hidden routes, treasures, bosses, and areas linked into one explorable landscape.
- 03Environmental puzzles
- Progress requires solving world-based challenges while using an expanding set of movement abilities.
- 0416-bit pixel art
- The fantasy setting is presented through detailed pixel-art environments and characters.
Souldiers compared to similar games
Souldiers combines metroidvania exploration, platforming, environmental puzzles, and melee combat, while Jusant centers on climbing, stamina management, and a meditative ascent through a tower. Sundered: Eldritch Edition is the closest listed alternative in structure, also using chaotic metroidvania exploration, but its description emphasizes a roguelite format rather than Souldiers' soldiers, equipment upgrades, parries, and environmental movement puzzles.
Souldiers: platforms & release
Is Souldiers worth it?
It is worth it if: metroidvania players who want exploration tied to hidden paths and treasures. Skip it if: players seeking a low-pressure adventure may hit a wall when combat demands parries, dodges, and repeated fights against tough bosses.
Where can I download Souldiers?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Souldiers's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Souldiers on?
Windows only.
