Young Souls

 PC
User Score
6.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 5 out of 17

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  1. SofiShu
    Mar 12, 2022
    9
    The game while short has some quick bursts of energy and creativity, while exploring the hollow earth you may find landscapes that can be pretty, make you feel small and always find a way to convey a message.
    The gameplay is pretty polished and it's very challenging on it's own right it is rewarding when you commit to master it, the various accesories and weapons can make your own    The game while short has some quick bursts of energy and creativity, while exploring the hollow earth you may find landscapes that can be pretty, make you feel small and always find a way to convey a message.
    The gameplay is pretty polished and it's very challenging on it's own right it is rewarding when you commit to master it, the various accesories and weapons can make your own experience pretty custom. There is lot to love about this game, the character development of Jinn and Tristan with the Profesor, The goblins and their relationship with their leader.
    It's a very quirky Game with it's own flaws but everything it does right sums for that, it's a short little story about self development,trust,fear, and acceptance.    … Expand
  2. lioncash
    Apr 2, 2022
    10
    Awesome game from awesome developers 10/10 absolutely loved every second of it
  3. SplitMind
    May 9, 2022
    8
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  4. Porcypine
    Mar 30, 2022
    1
    No one wants 2d side scrollers. They are boring and lame. I get it, you're 50 years old and you want to reclaim your childhood. This game suck. It's boring. Most of it doesn't work. The only good things are design and the 3d cut scenes. They could have made it 3d but they were too lazy or too poor. No one wants 2d side scroller.

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80
#80 Best PC Game of 2022

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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Digital Chumps
    Apr 22, 2022
    80
    Young Souls is a good and unique 2D dungeon brawler/beat-em-up, don’t get me wrong. The gameplay loop is varied enough to not be a linear affair, the characters have a meaningful purpose, and combat is mostly fun. You’ll definitely find yourself experimenting with how to incorporate new weapons and armor into enemy encounters, but…you may find yourself frustrated with the inconsistent difficulty spikes and some of the monotony associated with a tried-and-true gameplay pattern of button mashing just to defeat an annoying boss. I want more from 1P2P, and I hope that they expand the world, and abilities, of Jenn and Tristan.
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  2. TrueGaming
    Apr 1, 2022
    80
    Young Souls could have benefited from some tweaks here and there. Still, it's a solid Beat 'em Up with enjoyable challenges and excellent content. I would recommend it to fans of the genre.
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  3. Softpedia
    Mar 23, 2022
    85
    Young Souls is a solid beat-em up that intelligently adds role-playing ideas to enhance its core gameplay. The bosses are well-designed and mostly fun to fight, especially if the player wisely diversified what the pair can do. The narrative is not groundbreaking but gives players plenty of interesting moments and cool banter (again, with plenty of swearing that can be filtered out). Players should not be afraid of dropping the difficulty level if they feel the game is too hard. And experimentation, when it comes to both equipment and tactics, can solve plenty of combat puzzles. Young Souls is fast, engaging, deep enough, a good example of how a classic genre can be updated for modern sensibilities.
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