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Mortal Shell
Their Flesh is Your Armor. Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Survival demands superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Possess lost warriors, track down hidden sanctums of the devout, and face formidable foes.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
43 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I ended up enjoying this game more than I expected, genuinely had a good time, there’s a lot of potential here. It took a while to adjust to the rhythm of combat since it plays quite differently from other soulslikes,…”
“Enjoyed this more than expected. A mixed bag in terms of overall quality but I think it shows a lot of promise for a higher-budget sequel. Pros: - Atmosphere is absolutely great and carries a lot of the game. Graphics…”
“BOMB GAME if you like 3rd person RPG (soulslike ish) simple --smooth-solid Movement and fighting mechanics -- fluid -- smooth !! downs --- Poor color palate-- not too many particle effects but still good ones-- not too…”
26 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I ended up enjoying this game more than I expected, genuinely had a good time, there’s a lot of potential here. It took a while to adjust to the rhythm of combat since it plays quite differently from other soulslikes,…”
“Enjoyed this more than expected. A mixed bag in terms of overall quality but I think it shows a lot of promise for a higher-budget sequel. Pros: - Atmosphere is absolutely great and carries a lot of the game. Graphics…”
“cool game one of the best soulsikes. cons: - bit janky and rough around the edges - sometimes level design is confusing pros: - dark atmosphere - combat where attacks have weight to it - unique harden mechanic - visual…”
17 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I ended up enjoying this game more than I expected, genuinely had a good time, there’s a lot of potential here. It took a while to adjust to the rhythm of combat since it plays quite differently from other soulslikes,…”
“I like Mortal Shell a lot, it is a game with many interesting ideas, some of which work better than others. When I first tried the game, I had a lot of trouble with the parry timing, especially the windup animation.…”
“The game was great, and I would rate it 9/10. The main focus of attraction of the game would be our main ability to harden Hardening- the ability to make ourselves stonelike so we don't get damage Graphics are good…”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“the game is an easy 7/10, though probably the most stamina management heavy of all the souls/soulslikes i've played. not a problem. but mostly, i'm a simple man; rotting christ gets involved, so do i. the sequel is one…”
“---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is (dark, misty, oppressive atmosphere) ☑ Beautiful (grim fantasy done right) ☑ Good (stylized, not flashy but very intentional) ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don’t look too long at it ☐…”
“It's definitely worth it on a discount, if you're a souls enjoyer. A few novel mechanics were enjoyable. Atmosphere and sound design is good. I'm not a big fan of back-tracking, but here it's for some reason works fine.…”
3 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Should had left a review back then, recently been thinking about this so figured I'd replay it again, because I remembered the game as a genuinely good slasher with just the right atmosphere. So now I'm replaying, and…”
37 of the 104 reviews raise this · 17 of them still recommend the game.
“BOMB GAME if you like 3rd person RPG (soulslike ish) simple --smooth-solid Movement and fighting mechanics -- fluid -- smooth !! downs --- Poor color palate-- not too many particle effects but still good ones-- not too…”
“cool game one of the best soulsikes. cons: - bit janky and rough around the edges - sometimes level design is confusing pros: - dark atmosphere - combat where attacks have weight to it - unique harden mechanic - visual…”
“I started this game with the mindset "The reviews are mixed, but it looks pretty good, maybe it's atleast somewhat decent"... the mixed reviews are well deserved. THE POSITIVE (SINGULAR) - The only positive that I can…”
18 of the 104 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Mortal Shell is a bad-ass game for sure, and it's hard as f***. Would I recommend this game to a friend? Sure, if they find it on sale like I did. I played if for a couple hours and had some fun with it, but because of…”
14 of the 104 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“I have played this both on console and here. Here for a lot less time. But let's get to the point. Mortal Shell is a weird game. It is a Souls-like while not following too closely to Souls games. Souls titles are janky…”
“Cool game. The game has a couple of bugs and the animations aren't the best, but it is a fun game in general. It's short (only 4 bosses) but I enjoyed it.”
“The game was great, and I would rate it 9/10. The main focus of attraction of the game would be our main ability to harden Hardening- the ability to make ourselves stonelike so we don't get damage Graphics are good…”
13 of the 104 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“Cool game. The game has a couple of bugs and the animations aren't the best, but it is a fun game in general. It's short (only 4 bosses) but I enjoyed it.”
“A great game that is full of unique ideas, but it's very short and a little buggy & janky sometimes.”
“It has all the charms of Dark Souls games, but executes it in the worst of ways possible. It starts great, with shell concepts and all that. But pretty soon, it all falls flat on its head. The graphics are alright. The…”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“I tried to like this game so badly but man, it's hard. The movements don't feel fluid one bit, the combat is boring. To have a resolve meter that controls your hardening, your parry, your weapon specials all in one is…”
“I like the atmosphere and I like the direction of the game. I don't like the deliberatley confusing level design with no map and landmarks that look the same. Limited heals that are consumable that heal barely anything?…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 67.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“First of all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the game is optiimized even i could get 35 40 fps WITHOUT STUTTERS at 1080p low , even my broke ass could run it. *NOW The Game it self is Good, unique mechanics and great voice acting and character, So would i recommend buying it? -Its Kinda 50/50. So…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played“I remember starting Elden Ring when it was so popular that it was practically impossible not to hear about it or feel interested. After a couple of hours of play, I realized just how great this genre was and how much I loved it. It was my very first soulslike game. After…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“Mixed review, Mortal Shell does things I do like and things I don't. Unfortunately not enough to make me want to finish the game Getting performance out of the way, the optimisation a very polished. Getting 200+ frames maxed out in 4k without DLSS, that's something you barely…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, RPG |
| Player tags | Souls-like · Dark Fantasy · Action · RPG · Difficult · Violent · Singleplayer · Action RPG · Third Person · Hack and Slash · Atmospheric · Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 37 |
| Official site | https://www.mortalshell.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 SP1 or newer Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 Storage: 12 GB available space