Sword & Sorcery – Immortal Souls
Five heroes awoke from the dead and were made immortal to save the kingdom from the rise of darkness. In Sword & Sorcery – Immortal Souls, up to five players control one or more of these legendary characters brought back to life by powerful sorcery, to fight against the forces of evil, controlled by the game itself.
60m - 90m
1 - 5 Players
Ages 12+
albcann
Good game, although very fiddly, campy with the humor, and there is an overload of treasure and magic items. Definitely entertaining, however. I obtained the game in December 2018, played all 7 scenarios over the month of January, then traded the game. No reason to replay anything, I got what I needed to get out of the game. Rumor has it that Ancient Chronicles, the new Kickstarted self contained S&S game has addressed some of the issues with the original game. Supposedly it is tougher and some complaints have been addressed. I hope so.
ajewo
Cooperative Ameritrash dungeon crawler fantasy game by the designers of Galaxy Defenders. [b]I like:[/b] + A lot of tactical choices available + Story events have different branches depending on the player's decision. + Some unpredictability creates tension and replayability based on (story) events. + Good AI system, context-sensitive, however, AI cannot use its AI due to the tubular level design (no positioning possible) + Leveling up and finding equipment for characters is fun: characters can take evil or good paths (morality), however, difficulty depends on the what equipments you find + Cooldown system from computer games: when you fire a skill, it will need to be rotated back into "readiness" before using it again. + Monsters get special abilities which make them more interesting. + Characters with special abilities play differently + Monsters have different behavior + Adjustable difficulty level [b]Neutrals:[/b] # Artwork and components are okay: look and feel is rather old-school. # Generic fantasy story. # Narrative campaign (scenario-based). # Expansions are really good and provide better scenarios, however, you should reset your character levels. # Scales quite well from 1-4 players. # Dead characters can play as ghost. No permadeath. # Some randomness and luck involved: different event decks, dice rolling # App to help manage character progression across a couple of campaigns if you play with a couple of groups. # Too many simultaneous effects in the end game. # Dice rolls creates tension but also swingyness # Long rulebook (50 pages) [b]I do not like:[/b] - The AI cannot make use of its AI conditions due to the narrow levels. Base game does not make fully use of the game system. - Base game scenarios are rather boring (expansions are far better). No explorations (except for Arance Portal expansion). - Bosses can be pinned down into a corner and thus are easily defeated. - Simple core rules, however, there are a lot of little details that need to be looked up again and again which makes it a complex heavy game. - The combat rules while not complicated add so many modifiers that they slow the game down. - Set-up and tear-down: plenty of tokens to sort and manage. - Balancing problems on higher levels: players become too strong. - Kickstarter exclusives. [b]Similar games:[/b] * Sword & Sorcery: Ancient Chronicles: reimplementation of Immortal Souls by improving the AI and level design to make the combat more dynamic, however, it is also more complex, good scenarios, generic story, tweaked rules. * Galaxy Defenders: Sci-Fi prequel of Sword & Sorcery inspired by XCOM the video game, deeper tactical, faster, and dynamic combat. * Altar Quest: puzzly long hero turns, fun generative exploration. * Chronicles of Drunagor: fun events, weaker tactical combat, cube action system. * Middara: character building with a lot of skills, no events, AI can be exploited. * Descent: Legends of the Dark: app-integration, fun crafting and progression, less tactical options, less complexity, weaker scenario design, weaker monster profiles. * Gloomhaven: hand management game, poor AI, very puzzly, fiddly, repetitive. * Oathsworm: good story, boss battler, however, combat strategies remain rather the same andOka static.
Azra3l
ideal for solo play with 2 characters :) small amount of story telling. unfortunately it's too easy, especially taking into account so many rules.. even on 6th quest from time to time I had to check some rules ;] still overall fun game but it's not must have.