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Estencel
Atmospheric souls-like. Fight enemies and bosses and explore the gloomy city.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“"It couldn't be any more Bloodborne unless it started with a crotchety old man in a wheelchair.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“This first boss is overcooked and so far only 8.6% of players have beaten them if that tells you anything... I can't believe it actually took using three of four of the additional items to bait and attack the boss just to whittle them down only to be met with a fatal stun locked…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“its not for me. i dont understand the sense of progression here. you start off in a city, okay thats not bad but... where do i go? the place is big, i mean really big with a lot of pathways and enemies hit hard, plus the lighting makes it very hard to see. i am also not sure how…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-27.
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Latest official news
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Patch 2.5.6
Added dim light to the character for dimly lit areas. Description of the White Weapons has been added. Description of the Salt Symbol has been added.
Patch 2.5.5
Fixed a bug where you couldn't talk to Fugue. Changed the brightness/contrast balance, reduced the sharpness of the light. Performance slightly improved.
Patch 2.5.4
Fixed some bugs in the environment, due to which it was possible to get further ahead of time or get out of bounds. Fixed a bug where it was possible to use additional weapons when falling. Fixed a bu
Patch 2.5.3
Added icons for additional weapon control buttons on the screen. Fixed some inaccuracies in the environment. Removed cooldowns for the additional weapons "Katana" and "White Katana".
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer |
| Player tags | Souls-like · Exploration · Multiplayer · Difficult · Online Co-Op · Hack and Slash · Rhythm · Action RPG · Third Person · Action-Adventure · PvE · Nonlinear (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English, Russian, Turkish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish - Latin America |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD R7 265 or equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space