Release Date: May 28, 2019
Vambrace: Cold Soul is a roguelike game in which we try to bounce the city from the hands of evil powers. One day a mysterious stranger appears, which may become the last hope for the fighters.
Devespresso Games has already delivered a successful two-dimensional survival horror called The Coma: Recut. The next game of the Korean team is Vambrace: Cold Soul. This time the developers have prepared a mix of adventure, roguelike and RPG.
Action in Vambrace: Cold Soul takes place in the city of Icenaire, which was cursed by the evil Shade King. The location was taken over by the piercing frost, which, to make things even worse, raised the dead from their graves. The few remaining survivors took refuge deep underground from where they fought a desperate battle. One day a mysterious stranger appears in the city...
Vambrace: Cold Soul is a two-dimensional title. The game is divided into several phases. First we travel through the underground city in search of of our team, which we choose from among warriors belonging to five races (including people and elves) and ten character classes. Each of them has different characteristics - one works well in short range combat, the other s the other , e.g. through healing. After gathering the four-person party, we equip the heroes with the necessary equipment and set off to the surface. There we have to face groups of dangerous opponents.
The combat is played in a turn-based system. The players order their subordinates to attack, defend themselves or use a specific skill. We should be very careful because the battles are not easy, and a permadeath mechanic is present in the game. This means that if one of the heroes dies in battle, we say goodbye to them forever, which can be painful if it's a more experienced characters.
During the adventure we acquire new equipment and elements needed to craft equipment, as Vambrace: Cold Soul features a simple crafting system. In addition to the main tasks, there are also side missions, where we can get new skins for characters.
Vambrace: Cold Soul adopts dark fantasy visuals and characteristic graphic style, used by the studio's main artist - Minho Kim.
Platforms:
PC Windows May 28, 2019
PlayStation 4 August 29, 2019
Xbox One August 28, 2019
Nintendo Switch August 29, 2019
Developer: Dvora Studio / Devespresso Games
Publisher: Headup Games
Vambrace: Cold Soul, a roguelike heavily inspired by Darkest Dungeon, will be available today on Steam and GOG.com. Console owners will have to wait for the launch until September 2019.
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Konrad Serafinski
May 28, 2019
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System Requirements for Vambrace: Cold Soul Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB RAM, graphic card Intel HD or better, 5 GB HDD, Windows XP 64-bit.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce 7900 or better, 5 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit.
Game Ratings for Vambrace: Cold Soul Video Game.
Critical Hit: 6.5 / 10 by Brad Lang
Vambrace is a successful evolution of the mechanics that made Darkest Dungeon such a hit, but despite its beautiful art style and interesting setting, the repetitive gameplay and lack of meaningful achievements make the experience for more tiresome than challenging.
Digitally ed: 2.5 / 5 by Matt Sainsbury
Vambrace: Cold Soul is by no means a bad game. It's far too derivative and simple to reach the same league as Darkest Dungeon as a classic, but it's an enjoyable time waster, with superb production values and neat, clean, classical turn based combat action. The best way to play the game is probably on the Nintendo Switch, too, since it's the kind of background noise that works while you've got the sport or a movie on TV.
Cubed3: 5 / 10 by Josh Di Falco
Vambrace: Cold Soul is not bad, but it quickly becomes a mindless, repetitive, grinding slog of the same battles that require very little strategy, not to mention the lack of any sort of enemy variety.
Average score from votes.