It will take the best among you around an hour to complete it. It is vindictive design, assembled with spite. As such, the developers have issued a warning for those considering hopping in: “Mortal Shell was made for battle-hardened soulslike fans. “This is a passion project from a small indie team united by one vision: to return people to that familiar, satisfying pain of a traditional soulslike - deliberate, measured, and merciless,” the beta’s blurb reads.Ī challenge should be expected, then, with Mortal Shell intended to test the skills of even the experienced soulsborne players of the world. We're delighted to open the beta for everyone on PC, starting now.”ĭeveloped by the indie studio Cold Symmetry, Mortal Shell is an unabashed homage to FromSoftware’s famous titles of swords, dragons and, most of all, repeated deaths. “We really didn’t want so many people to feel left out.

“We expected demand but nothing like this,” a tweet from the game’s official Twitter account reads. Heavily inspired by Dark Souls, the measured action-RPG combat of Mortal Shell entered Closed Beta last week, receiving a lot more interest than the developers were anticipating. The PC beta for Mortal Shell is now open to all on the Epic Game Store, allowing anyone to download and try out the game for free.

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