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It’s impossible to talk about Mortal Shell without comparing it to the seminal Dark Souls. Everything about this new indie title from indie developer Cold Symmetry, from the combat and storytelling to ...

Look, I know it’s trite to compare games to Dark Souls these days, but Mortal Shell isn’t merely “like” Dark Souls, it’s living inside Dark Souls’ cupboard. It’s raiding Dark Souls’ fridge at night.

You’d probably assume, having just been yeeted out of my skinsuit by a giant of a man wielding an absurdly large hammer, that I was about to die, but you’d be wrong. You see, in Mortal Shell, you are ...