Oddworld: Soulstorm

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6.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 270 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 137 out of 270
  2. Mixed: 50 out of 270
  3. Negative: 83 out of 270
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  1. Mahmood_Yusuf
    Mar 25, 2023
    3
    26 years after the first game. And they couldn't add a thing to the game!!!! Really disappointed and this would be probably the last oddworld game I would play.
  2. quittit1
    Jul 23, 2022
    3
    If you like it then you like it, if you don’t then you don’t. I did not find it any more appealing than the first oddworld.
  3. Rubino
    Jun 29, 2022
    0
    I am just here to balance the people who give 10s and claim to balance the justified bad scores.
  4. Nikopro245
    Jun 18, 2022
    7
    Cinematic story, engrossing world and good core gameplay spoiled by bugs and clunky controls…esp the terrible jump mechanics
  5. fildev86
    Oct 25, 2021
    0
    This is a perfect example of HOW TO F#CK UP A WHOLE FRANCHISE!

    BUGS (sometimes they even erase your progress) - check ABSURD NEW MECHANICS (CRAFTING) - checks USELESS BADGES - checks 10 YEARS OLD HUMOR - check UNSKIPPABLE VERBOSE DIALOGUES - check BORING(BARELY EXISTING) STORY - check ZERO PLATFORM ENGAGEMENT - check CRAZY-LONG LEVELS FOR NO REASON - check And last, but not    This is a perfect example of HOW TO F#CK UP A WHOLE FRANCHISE!

    BUGS (sometimes they even erase your progress) - check
    ABSURD NEW MECHANICS (CRAFTING) - checks
    USELESS BADGES - checks
    10 YEARS OLD HUMOR - check
    UNSKIPPABLE VERBOSE DIALOGUES - check
    BORING(BARELY EXISTING) STORY - check
    ZERO PLATFORM ENGAGEMENT - check
    CRAZY-LONG LEVELS FOR NO REASON - check

    And last, but not least:
    THE MOST STUPID BUNCH OF TROPHIES for PS
    The trophies for PS5 will not make you enjoy a challenge, instead they will simply ruin your experience from the very beginning.

    Example? well, how about the fact you gotta complete the very first level with NO DAMAGE(????) which is insane, and you can't just restart from checkpoint, oh no sir, you HAVE TO CLOSE THE FKING GAME AND RESTART! Same if you want to get the no-death trophy, you can continue from the checkpoint, but you still have to exit close0 the game. This is utterly stupid.

    Another example of how nonsense is in this game?
    How about the new crafting abilities of Abe, most of which you practically use ONCE OR TWICE in the whole game, or the TOTALLY USELESS CURRENCY to open certain gates? All this nonsense to justify the presence of in-game badges for level 100% completion. Pathetic, lack of ideas huh?

    Seriously, don't buy this game. Not worth the money at all, and this comes from somebody who loved Abe's adventures since the very first release for PS1.

    Screw you devs/management of Soulstorm game, you ruined it for real.    … Expand
  6. JustNReasonable
    Oct 1, 2021
    8
    Oddworld Soulstorm recaptures the exodus odd and mysterious atmosphere of exodus. The game starts and ends it’s first arc a little weak.
    The middle and end are worth downloading or buying the game for. The other bad thing is there are some bugs. This game is worth playing though.
  7. BipolarSmile
    Sep 15, 2021
    3
    Probably the worst experience I had on PS. The game is extremely, and i mean extremely buggy. even after all the patches. As a QA Engineer I would be embarrassed to release a product to costumers in this state with such game breaking bugs.
    Do yourself a favor and skip this one(And i even got it for free via ps plus).
  8. Gyns23
    Sep 6, 2021
    6
    I love oddworld franchise, but men this game was buggy as **** at the very beggining. I manage to end the game and even achive platinum trophy, but had to wait patch after pacht to do it.
  9. Bakoluk
    Aug 31, 2021
    8
    Graphics 7/10
    Playability 9/10
    Entertainment 8/10
    DualSense: 5/10
    Overall 8/10
    Sometimes too frustrating...
  10. Queruba
    Jul 13, 2021
    3
    Jogo medíocre, "era melhor ter ido jogar o jogo do Pelé". Não recomendo. Nota três.
  11. burund_man
    Jul 25, 2021
    1
    Эту игру невозможно играть. Управление против тебя. Я даже не могу перепрыгнуть с турника на турник с двойным прыжком, Эйб постоянно пролетает мимо. И к таки моментам обычно ещё надо пробираться от чекпоинта. Не хочу тратить своё время на это говноЭту игру невозможно играть. Управление против тебя. Я даже не могу перепрыгнуть с турника на турник с двойным прыжком, Эйб постоянно пролетает мимо. И к таки моментам обычно ещё надо пробираться от чекпоинта. Не хочу тратить своё время на это говно
  12. TheoreticalHero
    Jun 19, 2021
    1
    This game is garbage terrible graphics and horrible gameplay bugs, glitches everywhere it looks like a mobile game not worth the price
  13. AntiMXT
    Jun 4, 2021
    3
    I love all the Oddworld games but this could have been executed a whole lot better. In an era where even console developers are conscious of our time this game seems to completely disregard it. Polar extremes with hand holding boss-fight guides followed swiftly by insta-failure of 100% completion triggered by something seemingly obvious. Seems like they tried to pad the run time by makingI love all the Oddworld games but this could have been executed a whole lot better. In an era where even console developers are conscious of our time this game seems to completely disregard it. Polar extremes with hand holding boss-fight guides followed swiftly by insta-failure of 100% completion triggered by something seemingly obvious. Seems like they tried to pad the run time by making you repeat sections and unskippable videos hundreds of times until you've memorised the pattern and then the game then decides to respond differently to your actions /inputs when you finally get a good run. The checkpoint system is terrible, controls are imprecise, crafting is needless, and the bugs/crashes are plentiful. All in all not a stellar release. I would have been pissed if I'd paid for this. UPDATE: Finally finished this and was greet with NO ENDING, not good, bad or otherwise, just cut to credits. This game has actually undone my love for the series...… Expand
  14. floppyjabjab
    May 24, 2021
    3
    Wow, worst piece of crap in history of remakes.
    Bug fest, has nothing of Oddworld, it's a completely different game.
    Might just as well call it Mario or Crash.
    Thanks Devs, screw you for betray your fans, sbod have stuck with new and tasty formula.
    If it ain't broken don't freaking fix it.
  15. TroggHugger
    May 23, 2021
    10
    Hands down one of the greatest platformers ever made. Graphics and animation are incredible. Nothing built on unity looks like this. Story is cinema quality and beautifully rendered animation performances that really capture the emotions. So much depth and beauty in this game. Totally refreshing rare gaming experience that is actually a lot of fun for spectators to watch others play.
  16. DavidGamer
    May 15, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Controls are crap. Aiming is a joke. I completed the final Yard level after a week and a million attempts just for the screen to go black and the game to crash which restarted me back at the top of the level. The game is artificially difficult due to the pss poor controls. If I had bought this game I'd have returned it but because it was free with plus it gets a few more points. Very forgettable.… Expand
  17. CroCodile016
    May 12, 2021
    5
    This game is awesome i had fun playing this game it's pretty tough to beat but still really enjoyable!
  18. Nysp
    May 11, 2021
    2
    I'm a huge fan of the franchise. Since the original PlayStation, I've always considered it as one of the best franchises on the console. Then there were some versions that I didn't really like on PlayStation 2 and PSP. But on PlayStation 4, New'n'Tasty got my hype up in the series. A wonderful game that made me create a high expectation for Soulstorm.

    As part of PSN Plus free games, I    I'm a huge fan of the franchise. Since the original PlayStation, I've always considered it as one of the best franchises on the console. Then there were some versions that I didn't really like on PlayStation 2 and PSP. But on PlayStation 4, New'n'Tasty got my hype up in the series. A wonderful game that made me create a high expectation for Soulstorm.

    As part of PSN Plus free games, I started it on PlayStation 5. My hope it was to play the best game of whole franchise. And I have to say that almost all technical aspects are very good. Graphics, gameplay, new skills, cutscenes. Everything adapted to new consoles generation. But early, in the first hours of the game, I found big problems.

    The level design is not as good as it was on previous games. I don't know how much the bugs (they are a lot) screw up as well but mostly when the stage forces you to run away from an airship, the terrible level design make us being hit by fireballs on unfair way in some places and, after the death on the same place, the fireballs didn't hit us anymore. Some enemies AI turned off and it used to block our path to go on stealth mode.

    But even with these problems, which are very serious because the level design in this kind of game is essential, I still kept going forward because I expected it to get better. But the worst thing happened. Specifically in the Phat Station stage, there is a part with an elevator, after going through an entire area full of enemies and friends to save. After go up using the elevator, the game ask you to explore before boarding on a train. When you are exploring the stage, your character ends up going back to the part of the elevator and door where you came from closes. As a result, the elevator is on the top floor and the closed door to return, it is not possible to call the elevator back again. A simple button to call the elevator back would solve the problem. But here begins the part where Oddworld Inhabitants has really failed.

    I contacted their support through 2 different channels. I haven't been answered in any until today (almost 2 months later). Knowing about several problems in the game, they released patches with several fixes. Versions 1.06 then 1.07 and 1.08. In all of them, I tested the part where I got stuck, in none of them solved the issue. In one of the patches it says that it prevented players from getting stuck in the same place. But nothing solved for those who were already got stuck. In other words, Oddworld Inhabitants simply ignored those who were already playing and were in trouble, solving only the problem for new players.

    A huge disappointment! Perhaps in the future, I will try to start the whole game over again. But now, the only thing I can do is regret that one of my favorite franchises has become a huge disappointment.
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    In Brazilian Portuguse:

    Eu sou um grande fã da franquia. Desde o primeiro PlayStation, sempre considerei como uma das melhores franquias do console. Depois, vieram algumas versões que não gostei muito no PlayStation 2 e PSP. Já no PlayStation 4, o New'n'Tasty reviveu minha alegria na série. Um excelente jogo que me fez criar uma alta expectativa para Soulstorm.

    O jogo veio grátis pela PSN Plus e fui jogar no PlayStation 5. Comecei jogando com a esperança de estar jogando o melhor jogo da franquia. É preciso dizer que vários aspectos técnicos são muito bons. Gráficos, jogabilidade, novas habilidades, cutscenes. Tudo de bom nível já adaptados para a nova geração. Mas já nas primeiras horas de jogo, encontrei um grande problema.

    O level design do jogo não acompanha a tradição da série. Não sei o quanto os bugs (que são muitos) atrapalham também, mas especialmente a fase onde somos obrigados a escapar de um dirigível é horrorosa, level design terrível em que somos atingidos por umas bolas de fogo em determinada parte do cenário de forma injusta, enquanto que no mesmo local em outras vezes estamos protegidos. Inimigos com inteligência artificial desligada, te impedindo de realizar algumas partes em stealth que o próprio jogo recomenda.

    Mas, mesmo com esse problemas, que são sim bem sérios pois é um jogo onde o level design é essencial, ainda continuei indo em frente no jogo pois esperava que ele fosse melhorar. Porém, o pior aconteceu. Especificamente na fase Phat Station, há uma parte com um elevador, depois de passar por toda uma área cheia de inimigos e amigos para salvar. Após subir no elevador, o jogo sempre te convence a explorar no local de embarcar num trem. Ao explorar, seu personagem acaba voltando para a parte do elevador e porta de onde você veio, se fecha definitivamente. Com isso, o elevador fica no andar de cima e a porta pra voltar fechada e não é possível chamá-lo de novo. Um simples botão para chamar o elevador resolveria o problema. Mas aqui começa a parte onde a Oddworld Inhabitants falhou de forma realmente grave.    … Expand
  19. Drakontas
    May 8, 2021
    0
    Graphics: 11/10 I love them. Though it is the usual with this engine (silly ragdolls from time to time)
    Sound 7/10: Too much WHOOOOOAAAAAM and BZZZZZEEEEEEUUUUGH. Oddworld was about subtlety. Explosions sound fine, as well as weapons and environmental doodads in general. But if I want to listen to epic, bombastic music I'd play Battlefield. Where is the subtlety gone ? Tracks matching    Graphics: 11/10 I love them. Though it is the usual with this engine (silly ragdolls from time to time)
    Sound 7/10: Too much WHOOOOOAAAAAM and BZZZZZEEEEEEUUUUGH. Oddworld was about subtlety. Explosions sound fine, as well as weapons and environmental doodads in general. But if I want to listen to epic, bombastic music I'd play Battlefield. Where is the subtlety gone ? Tracks matching the setting ? They all sound the same now.
    Gameplay 2/10: I side with the Sligs. Absolutely.
    Mudokons that aren't throwing what they're given despite being set to aggressive behaviour and refuse to get into lockers (fixed by now per patch) don't deserve to live on. Especially after that level where you open the cells and Sligs start spawning left and right and your pals refuse to throw some candy at them... 'twas the first time I rooted for the Sligs picking off the fleeing Mudokons in the background one by one (after trying to save them all for a good 17 times).
    Controls are finicky, especially Abe's vertical jumping with the left joystick (somehow worse that New n tasty).
    Materials could be slightly more available in containers.
    I love the puzzles but not every damn screen.
    Have some jump and run segments where we only have to jump and run. And intelligently posess Sligs to kill them on other places. You know, like the original. And not search for the one switch while avoiding Sligs, Zappers and 12 hazards at once. Its too much after some time.
    Missing a TON of promised features:
    a) Choosing your destination. 'Member when we would arrive at a train yard and could select the place we want to travel to next ? Now it's all predetermined
    b) Evolved Quarma system. 'Member that they stated ''If we killed bad guys, that's good Quarma, but cruelly killing helpless enemies would reward us with a great drop of our Quarma ? Along with this the line that ''ideally no one dies, let all Sligs live''
    c) Improved camera system. Dunno about you, in two occasions in-game I didnt see the Mud's because the camera was showing me a sheet of metal in front for example. Or the fact that you always see a rock or something in front of you when you reach the edge of a platform near these doodads. Why not pan the camera from behind Abe so that we can see where we're going?
    d) CHI CHARMS. WHERE ARE THEY ? THE GAMES' PROMISED SECONDARY ECONOMY ?
    e) New wildlife that's gonna scare the crap out of us. Dunno about you, the Sleeches were fecking lame. They actually threw out the creatures that frightened us the most. But who am I talking to after the debacle that scrabs, paramites etc became after Munch's Oddysee...

    The game's NOTHING like the original vision you claimed it to be. Abe's Exoddus was a 9 month rush that came out more polished and with TONS of content compared to this.
    1 point because it's Oddworld and they bring out 1 game every 10 years or so...    … Expand
  20. alirezasc
    May 6, 2021
    0
    Weakest entry in the franchise. Full of bugs and technical problems. Also, Level design sucks, and the first half of the game is incredibly boring. but great cut-scenes and voice acting.
  21. Retrogamer961
    May 5, 2021
    7
    Not as charming as the original 1990s games and less faithful remake unlike new n tasty. It's also missing enemy types. Challenging level design , decent graphics and an interesting and weird story make it worth a play. Quite buggy though.
  22. ilyar
    May 3, 2021
    8
    Have a lot of bugggg
  23. Bielmelo91
    May 1, 2021
    4
    Prós:
    - Gráficos Contra:
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  24. DreamCore
    Apr 30, 2021
    5
    Glitchy collisions, sluggish input and frustrating level design made this a less then plesant experience. Most of the time I completed a level felt like a relief, knowing I don't have to go through that again.

    The mines are completely broken, sometimes not activating when enemies run over them and requires nano precision timing to disarm. Once I died 10 times trying to disarm two mines    Glitchy collisions, sluggish input and frustrating level design made this a less then plesant experience. Most of the time I completed a level felt like a relief, knowing I don't have to go through that again.

    The mines are completely broken, sometimes not activating when enemies run over them and requires nano precision timing to disarm. Once I died 10 times trying to disarm two mines in order to proceed. The mortars also hit you through walls.

    The game is supposed to have 3D sound but I can't tell the difference between this and any other last-gen game.

    Overall, I'm glad I didn't pay anything for this but got it through PS Plus.    … Expand
  25. BadMasterJ4
    Apr 28, 2021
    3
    Disappointed with this game, the only good thing is that the game is free with the PSN Plus.
  26. Kevinrate
    Apr 28, 2021
    2
    Bored game the hero scares me and doesn't make me want to play but i try and i can say it's a bored game
  27. MisterMansfield
    Apr 28, 2021
    0
    A dated style of gameplay which surprisingly doesn't fix anything up with the advances of technology. Trying to keep people alive feels inconsistent as sometimes they just don't follow instructions. Even for free, this game is not worthwhile trying unless you're a diehard fan of Oddworld games.
  28. Talonsal
    Apr 26, 2021
    10
    One of the best games I have purchased in a long time! Great atmosphere and music.
  29. Citizen_Cook
    Apr 26, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Painful!
    I’m a huge fan of the Oddworld games, that why i found Soulstorm so disappointing. The level design, graphics, and cutscenes are all top notch, but the game’s story is rather bland and uninteresting compared to Exodus’. Why did Lorn remove the plot threads of the spirits appealing to Abe to prevent his ancestors bones from being turned into Brew?
    The gameplay is super frustrating and the lack of a quick save is unforgivable.
    I’m stupefied that Lorn would release such a buggy game. His previous works were all so highly polished.    … Expand
  30. Tlou99
    Apr 26, 2021
    2
    Pésimo juego, por lo que prefirieron regalarlo por ps plus, por que nadie lo compraría
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 51 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 51
  3. Negative: 5 out of 51
  1. Cubed3
    Oct 24, 2022
    90
    This is a triumphant return to Oddworld. Soulstorm does fantastic things with Abe's story and shows some real advances with the developer's designs. Utterly excellent look, and a world that oozes with consumerist evils make this the definitive new Oddworld experience. There are absolutely no obstacles to heartily recommending this game to all players new and old. Can't wait to see what comes next!
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  2. CD-Action
    Nov 19, 2021
    75
    Soulstorm is old school and it’s for you to decide whether that’s a flaw or not. You can definitely feel the spirit of the old Oddworlds, but for me the devs were to conservative. I would really welcome a touch of madness, some variety to spice thing up. However, if a solid, challenging retro platformer is what you’re looking for – go for it, you’ll be pleased. [06/2021, p.50]
  3. Edge Magazine
    May 20, 2021
    50
    While that means Soulstorm works - accidentally or otherwise - as a metaphor for the struggle of the working classes, all that toil rarely makes for a particularly engaging game. [Issue#359, p.112]
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