Stray Souls

Critic reviews

• PlayStation Universe

  Timothy Nunes · Nov 06, 2023

  4.5

  Stray Souls barely works well enough to finish, but it lacks the kind of refinement and effort needed to bring together all of the ideas presented in this game. Doubly so, the technical issues make an already fragmented narrative feel even more disjointed. Even for people who enjoy bad horror, this is a hard sell.

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• TheXboxHub

  Gareth Brierley · Nov 05, 2023

  4.0

  There is probably a good game in here somewhere, but it feels like Stray Souls needed more time in development to iron out the bugs and hone the mechanics. There’s no doubt that the puzzles are good, but the combat is terrible as is some of the movement of the characters. Even with an interesting narrative, the glitches break the immersion.

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• IGN

  Vikki Blake · Oct 26, 2023

  4.0

  Stray Souls is an unpolished, paint-by-numbers Silent Hill clone that's horrifying in all the wrong ways.

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• Gaming Bolt

  Ravi Sinha · Oct 26, 2023

  4.0

  Stray Souls isn't very good, even when it's unintentionally hilarious, and fails to deliver a competent gameplay experience, much less any scares.

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• Gamekult

  Guillaume Verdin · Oct 25, 2023

  3.0

  S’il était bien entendu en chantier depuis plusieurs années, c’est assez récemment qu’on a découvert l’existence de Stray Souls, le tout premier jeu de la petite société Jukai Studio fondée l’année dernière. Or, ce survival horror a quand même l’audace de sortir la même semaine qu’Alan Wake 2 – alors que le nouveau Alone in the Dark a préféré faire l’impasse sur la saison d’Halloween pour éviter le choc frontal – mais démarque heureusement sa proposition par deux aspects en particulier, outre un tarif plus abordable et les ambitions plus modestes qui vont avec.

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• Everyeye.it

  Giovanni Panzano · Oct 31, 2023

  5.0

  Al netto di una buona partenza e un discreto comparto grafico, Stray Souls è un prodotto deludente. Il sistema di jumpscare procedurali non centra il bersaglio e il sistema di combattimento è semplicemente disastroso, tanto da spingere il giocatore a correre via ogni volta che si incontra una creatura ostile.

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