Morbid: The Seven Acolytes

Sprawling level design, thrilling combat, and great storytelling.

Morbid is a nice first attempt at the genre by the people at Still Running and a good alternative for who is starving for a new soulslike game, but it can be improved in many areas and it's consistently lacking in originality.

Some rather important missteps with the combat make the experience far too toothless, annulling the sense of fast-paced action and dramatically lowering stakes upon defeat.

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes offers a fairly positive overall result that is clouded by some nonsense such as an excessively beginner, almost browser-game aspect, in terms of texts and menus, and some levels a bit more confusing than necessary. Beyond those, good setting, good story, good mechanics. It's worth giving it a try.

Morbid struggles with an identity crisis of sorts. Trying to find its own place among the rising tide of souls-like games of recent times.

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes has a weak gameplay and a world that pleases in parts. But if you are looking for a rich and immersive storyline, this is your game. Otherwise, wait for a price drop.

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a decent action RPG that fans of the genre will enjoy. It has a dark souls style to it so be sure to keep an eye out for those shrines. Death isn’t to be feared but you will have to fight the monsters you just cleared, and in the later levels, this can mean a decent amount of time lost. Still, I enjoyed the progression from each zone with terrific music and I liked the art style that softened the sometimes graphic content. If you’re up for a challenge, Morbid is for you.

While still a bit rough around the edges, Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a solid entry with excellent developer support that shows great potential.

An excellent entry to the Souls-like genre, held back by lack of replayability.

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is quite right in its artistic quality and in the pixelated animations, but it misses a lot when it gets too attached to the “soulslike” concept. Instead of adding interesting mechanics, it ends up restricting the player's options, making everything very slow and tiring. Without a doubt, if the developers had not clung to so many concepts that do not fit so well in the game itself and left all the gameplay and the systems “cleaner”, the experience would be much better and more rewarding.