SoulReaver

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.01
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.49
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.20
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
SoulReaver is a game about a cursed barbarian. He must reclaim his soul before it is too late. What little remains of his humanity will vanish in 10 seconds.

13 levels total

Game runs on JRE, you can download the .jar from the homepage. The OS links are bundled versions made with JWrapper.

To see a full run through go to

Comments62

oajfh27 Aug 2013, 02:00
Very fun game, good graphics, nice sfx, but pretty hard. Good job !
LordHellMaX
LordHellMaX27 Aug 2013, 02:27
Got a virus alert by Avira... unpack200.exe
xndr27 Aug 2013, 02:29
Too fast gameplay.
JQCoding27 Aug 2013, 02:33
Good concept, but didn't like the audio that much. Fairly hard though, but good job.
Kep27 Aug 2013, 02:37
If I get time for killing enemies, but not for the enemy spawners... I don't want to kill the spawners. Maybe if destroying the spawners gave a good chunk of time I would actually attack them.
brogrammers27 Aug 2013, 02:42
Very fun game with good looking graphics, a bit hard though XD
whiteravens27 Aug 2013, 02:49
My only comment is to use other colors for breakable objects (or a hint like a crack). I'm partially colorblind, and it takes me a while to differentiate your pink and purple.
Liz England27 Aug 2013, 03:05
Oh man, if there wasn't a time limit I'd play the hell out of this (but I know that's the theme). Wish I knew how many levels you made. Hard, but it's got all the right seeds for fun in it.
DaGamesta
DaGamesta27 Aug 2013, 03:09
A bit too hard, but still quite enjoyable nonetheless. It does become a little memorization-y the more you play, though. But you could have picked better sounds.
Vile Smile
Vile Smile27 Aug 2013, 03:09
Pretty cool. The controls felt pretty good. The corridors didn't offer much space for fighting.
Generalgore27 Aug 2013, 03:55
quite fun, challenging, but not too much. repetitive, but hey, you made it in 3 days so kudos to you! :)
oxysoft
oxysoft27 Aug 2013, 04:23
Very fun game. I like difficult and fast paced gameplay like that. The backstory is very nice too.
Daveydag27 Aug 2013, 06:30
Really cool idea. like the fast pace gameplay. so far best game i've played in the comp.
manabreak
manabreak27 Aug 2013, 06:59
Cool, but really difficult! I think I managed to get to the fifth level before I died. Don't have anything to complain, really solid work. Music would be nice, though, to complete the mood. :)
GrooveMan
GrooveMan27 Aug 2013, 07:07
Ah, it's been a long time since I've played Gauntlet, this is a fun homage! Love the grindhouse aesthetic too. However, the twinstick control scheme on keyboard felt unwieldy.
raincole27 Aug 2013, 08:54
The .dmb doesn't work at all
Tanser27 Aug 2013, 08:55
Nice graphics and great idea.
dkilford27 Aug 2013, 09:02
I really liked this. It took me a while to understand the game but I found it pretty enjoyable once I got going. Enemies spawning ontop of myself was pretty annoying, but I understood why.
Valerien
Valerien27 Aug 2013, 14:04
First of all, it's quite fun to play because the controls are responsive. Nice work on that.
However, the way you designed your "time bar", it really doesn't look time-related, thus your game feels like it missed the theme : why do white balls would give you time back again ?
Using an hourglass and sand, using a setting closer to the prince of persia series would have made it clear.
Apart from that, the audio is pretty repetitive.

Anyway, I think you got part of the deal nailed there, but not everything yet. Keep it up, next time you'll certainly get there.

Cheers,
Nathan
DoubleS
DoubleS27 Aug 2013, 17:24
Pretty difficult but enjoyable none the less
gmaker27 Aug 2013, 18:10
great idea!
voltorben27 Aug 2013, 18:14
Cool game. Gameplay was a little too fast - Would have been nice with some more ways to restart the timer.
Also, it gets quite challenging (which is good) but kinda tedious that you have to restart from level one.
Nice graphics, and also nice sounds :)
All in all a pretty good game, and some nice game mechanics!
zlowrance27 Aug 2013, 20:02
Very old school feeling. Cool entry :)
namrog84
namrog8427 Aug 2013, 23:31
haha! so fast paced and crazy!
Crazi45628 Aug 2013, 03:39
Art is nice! Cool game!
Anachron
Anachron28 Aug 2013, 05:25
Cool take on the Gauntlet formula!
Diptoman
Diptoman28 Aug 2013, 06:08
Quite challenging but at least it's fun! Played it quite a few times already..good job!
Reaperguy
Reaperguy28 Aug 2013, 08:27
Nice game, but when time runs out you should restart on the same floor you were on, not back at the begging of the dungeon, otherwise the game is too hard.
truiton
truiton28 Aug 2013, 12:15
It's hard, but nice art :)
rincewind_cz28 Aug 2013, 14:51
Controls are good and responsive, but the door spaces are bit tight imho :-/
MinionStudios
MinionStudios28 Aug 2013, 16:02
Tough to play, but it is so classic you can't help but love it.
Nerlin
Nerlin28 Aug 2013, 19:16
Nice sounds and good graphics!
Jupiter_Hadley
Jupiter_Hadley28 Aug 2013, 19:51
Nice idea and graphics, though I got stuck trying to go from one place to another and I featured it in my compilation video of Ludum dare 27 games, if you'd like to check it out http://youtu.be/PSym67k7zBg
Just Tom
Just Tom28 Aug 2013, 20:47
Quite pretty, the colour pallet work very much in it's favour. Nicely done. The game play feels too fast, it's very difficult unless you already know the level and hard to get into.

That being said, the idea of explore fast, kill faster is a neat one. I'd love to see more work done on this, it feels like I'm on the edge of something brilliant when I play this.
Mironix
Mironix28 Aug 2013, 21:32
Fun game, based on zelda type of dungeon crawling - keep at it guys!
Muznak28 Aug 2013, 21:42
Quite challenging, I liked the graphics and mood.
sP0CkEr229 Aug 2013, 02:49
very hard game -- but i liked the graphics and the mechanics -- great job
Venturelli29 Aug 2013, 18:26
10-seconds Gauntlet! Haha! I did the same thing as you from a completely opposite angle. Good to see more games representing Gauntlet
EdoMiyamoto
EdoMiyamoto29 Aug 2013, 20:31
Kinda hard, but good and nearly fun to play.
proc
proc29 Aug 2013, 22:23
10 second Gauntlet is good by my books. Warrior is about to die... every 10 seconds. Lots of levels!
BenWhi29 Aug 2013, 23:22
Cool! I love games like Gauntlet! Really tough though! Sound effects were pretty funny.
Elrobo
Elrobo30 Aug 2013, 01:53
Neat gauntlet clone. The sounds were...weird. I wish I could restart with a keyboard key. I liked the art/ui graphics.
PeaCe
PeaCe30 Aug 2013, 08:50
Very nice Gauntlet clone with a twist! But the time is too limited for this kind of game I think.
deammer
deammer30 Aug 2013, 14:33
Very fun game, i especially enjoyed the difficulty.
TobiasW
TobiasW31 Aug 2013, 15:23
The graphics pretty good! I like what you did there with the gameplay, but wow, this is hard - and was permadeath really necessary? I switched to just watching the Playthrough video pretty soon.
Pinktreeleaf31 Aug 2013, 17:17
Made it to the 3 character level. loved the music, graphics were really well done. extra points for innovation cause you used multiple characters. must have been hard for a jam.
Pinktreeleaf31 Aug 2013, 17:28
last comment was a mistake.

good graphics, but I was stuck in the first room. also im one of those people can only play if moving is the arrows and wasd are the shooting
Makio
Makio31 Aug 2013, 19:36
It was fun and nice graphics, but I want more time. XD
Brian Stegmann2 Sep 2013, 18:16
Good stuff, definitely had a nice Gauntlet feel to it. It would have been nice if you restarted a level instead of the entire game after dying or running out of time.
Lightmare Studio2 Sep 2013, 21:59
Fun Gauntlet-like game. The audio is a bit grating though, and making out the purple tiles among the blue ones is a bit difficult.
jprogman
jprogman4 Sep 2013, 03:03
Definitely like Gauntlet with a few changes. Ideally, the 10 second timer. The timer adds more difficulty to the game, but it's not too bad.
Jhelle
Jhelle4 Sep 2013, 09:18
Lovely gauntlet like game. Good job :)
Sascha4 Sep 2013, 13:26
Nice graphics, but very frantic gameplay. Feels like the game is running at twice the speed it should.
emveyh
emveyh7 Sep 2013, 20:23
Great gauntlet-like :) I like the fast-paced gameplay
naufr4g08 Sep 2013, 20:33
Game is quite fun with good graphics. It's very hard as well!
I'd like monster dying animations! :)
wilbefast10 Sep 2013, 11:47
On Arch Linux 64 bit I'm getting an "Error: Could not find or load main class SoulReaver-1.0.jar" for the jar.

For the binary it gets stuck at "[OS] Detected Linux (linux, 3.10.3-1-arch)"

:'(

What did you make/build this with?
infernet89
infernet8912 Sep 2013, 17:57
It took me a little to figure out that some block are actually breakable, and limiting the gameplay to ten second make this game too hard for me :(
Mekuri15 Sep 2013, 04:57
The graphics reminded me a bit of the good ol' C64 game Gauntlet. The game was a bit hard though.

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