Tormented Souls Review - Classic Horror

It feels a little unfair to ding on the game for some of these things, because though this is clearly a small-budget production, it's been made with a lot of love- a lot of love for the classic days of survival horror games. Tormented Souls is completely dedicated to realizing its vision of delivering a hardboiled old-school experience, and honestly, that is why it excels when it comes to its focus on exploration and resource management and its palpable atmosphere.

But there are plenty of rough edges too, all of which do add up in the end. For fans of the fixed camera era of the survival horror genre, Tormented Souls is a solid trip down memory lane, but even so, it's got a lot of room for improvement.

[Vitali]

Has it flaws? Yes the map, the enemies, inconsistent puzzles hints but for an Indie studio and game they did a outstanding job, doing it oldschool is a risk as well, i applaud them for that.

[drgbasool]

The puzzles are extremely hard. It's frustrating and the map is confusing alot. This game requires you to think alot like way more than silent hill games. Exactly the type of game I needed. Not finished it, some puzzles I needed to find a guide for because my brain has a limitation to creative solutions. There's a point of time where u know you will never solve a puzzle and you just brain dead so u need to cheat. It's challenging and recommend it to all

[fishtitz]

This is one of my favorite games so far this year. It is a perfect throwback to the classic survival horror genre, and I have not experienced such a creepy atmosphere since I first played silent hill 2 back in the day. I was captured from the start, and even though the map annoyed me this is the best horror experience I have played in a very long time! I hope the developers make more horror games in the future, because this really filled a hole that Konami left after screwing up the Silent hill franchise...

[sebastianquerol-hidalgo]

finally a big channel talking about this game

[mikemidwood]

Such a shame AAA devs won't make games like this anymore

[KevinoftheCosmos]

I played the demo. I don't draw any significant parallels to RE except for the save mechanic. This is uttlerly Silent Hill-esque, however.

[hauntedhotdog]

This game flew completely under my radar. Even though certain aspects are rough, namely the atrocious voice acting and dialogue, the core of the game is really solid if you are a longtime survival horror fan. A very pleasant surprise.

[contempris]

I'm 32 grew up with Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Just ran through the demo 3 times. Will DEFINITELY buy. This is what I wanted Resident Evil Remake 2 and 3 to be.

[mbank]

this is the most well polished indie game i have ever seen. i have seen playthroughs from different youtubers and they also praised it. the visual, atmosphere and music are all looking good

[jojobnah]

Please buy this game. The rest of the genre depends on it doing well and it honestly deserves the full price purchase if you’re craving that REemake or original RE feel.
It’s one of the most polished indie games out there, the visuals/lightning of the “mansion” is spot one!
Support it to encourage the team to make even more polished titles

[gorgisseva]

a mix of resident evil and silent hill? I am sold...

[Dagg]

I am an old school fan of classic survival horror and the puzzles in this game are "TORMENTED", agreed, but the game gives you ALL THE TOOLS, HINTS AND INFO to solve them. I've been able to finish the game without any kind of guide. Greetings from Spain:)

[PeppyZeb]

Absolutely loved this game. I would happily pay full price for a tourmented souls 2.

[UnownDepth]

Just told my boy about this.
He love this type of games.

[highwind]

Easily worth 30$ (physical game) in my book. Although it could use quite some polish I wouldn't hesitate to give the developers 40$ for their next oldschool survival-horror game.

[Jetwarren]

The game might have flaws but they did a remarkable job for it. It made me return back when I was a young lad back in Resident evil 1 2 3 silent hill, Fatal frame days. I love Horror games with Puzzles which adds up tension and use your brains to get out of the situation. I kinda wish future Fatal frame will look like this. I do hope the devs will continue on creating this masterpiece of theirs and it was a very great promising project they created.

[bryantallen]

If you play long enough, you get a flash light you can stick on your jacket.

[thegreatpooelectricboogal]

Almost at the end now, gotta say I’m really loving the atmosphere! Excellent for an indie. I already want a remake or a sequel to this with a bigger budget.

Edit: beat it the other day. My advice if you want to play this game casually is to use a guide. It took me around 10 hours and the guide really helped nothing drag on too long. I don't recommend to always use the guide though. Just when you get to a hard puzzle. The puzzles are great but would take a long time to figure out on your own and that can be real exhausting. So streamline it and just focus on resource management and the experience. Absolutely love most of the camera work and the atmosphere. The monster designs are lame but the old school combat and resource management is great. Hope they get enough funds to make a bigger better game in this style. I bought 3 copies just to support them lol this kind of game is truly a rarity these days.

[minamounir]

God I really like this game but the way they designed the puzzles made them unapproachable to a number of player even for old school fans. Nevertheless it’s a solid game with Clear RE/Silent Hill inspirations.

[mandrake]

This game has this strong retro re games and retro silent hill vibe to it. Definitely a love letter to the fans. I would highly recommend it.