Vambrace: Cold Soul

To experience the game as intended, you'll need to play through it at least three times (give or take). Along the way, you'll encounter long, unskippable cutscenes at both the beginning and the end, as well as full end credits. There is no New Game+, so all of your items and characters will be lost upon completion. If you want to revisit specific parts of the game or check out your newly unlocked costumes, you'll need to delete your save file and start a new game—cutscenes included. Additionally, achievements don’t always trigger as expected. Some will unlock only after restarting the game, others after restarting GOG Galaxy, and some may not unlock at all—especially if you've deleted a save or used different save slots. Lastly, the game is not up to date on GOG.

I really liked the game, the lore is well crafted, the art is beautiful and the soundtrack is on point! The combat can get a little repetitive (once you find the right team for you), but personally I didn't mind, the game isn't long enough for the repetitive factor to become super annoying, and I didn't have to grind much in order to farm the materials for the relics I wanted. Playing this game in 2021, I didn't find any bugs or errors, or at least not anything worth reporting, any problems that the game might've had were probably patched. Overall, I enjoyed my time playing Vambrace: Cold Soul, if you enjoy games like Darkest Dungeon and have a bit of money to spare, why not give it a try?

Vambrace Cold Souls are a Darkest Dungeon like with some pro, its more easier and can be in some case more forgiving however there many flaw making the game with some issue. The menue are kind of mess, you can't change unit. For exemple you want make a team oriented loot and merchand but later change your time you need to remove them. I think they could add some caserne to recruit and manage group. There no NG+ there some difficulty spike at the chapter 6. The art and the sound are very beautiful, the story are good we can feel the game want to be into a series of game. The game need some patch to fix some event doesn't trigger and there some balance issue. Overall if the dev give a better Quality Of Life, fix all the glitch and bug and improve the game by adding a new game + the choice to recruit more unit we can manage and change wthout fire someone and a better balance i would say the game could be amazing. I give a big cheer and prop to the dev and hope they will fix the game issue as soon as possible.

Very nice art and presentation in general. The frozen dungeon atmosphere within the game is well executed. UI and controls are mostly quite good with keyboard-friendly navigation. I have played in standard mode with a balanced, non-optimal party (fencer, fusillier and arcaster) and was able to finish the game without any of my characters dying. I did escape twice from areas when things got too dicey. Overall the game's RNG and resource management felt a lot less punishing than Darkest Dungeon's. As some others have pointed out, the combat system is quite simple and can feel a bit repetitive. Because of the relatively low amount of different equipment available within the game, the possible synergies and build possibilities are more limited. If this strategy aspect is what matters most to you, you may be disappointed by the game. However, if you're in the mood for a fairly short and good-looking dungeon romp with a decent story, there's a lot to like. Comparing my experience to the early reviews it's clear that many of the issues have been patched, so props to the devs.

I've hardly played more than one hour, but my first impression is... pretty bad. First, the game is slow: you can run in town but not outside, there is a bit of text that doesn't print fast enough for my taste (though I have to admit that amything that isn't instant isn't far enough for me), and the combat animations are slowish. And the combat itself doesn't sound interesting: it's basically Darkest Dungeon, but with neither the choice of skill (every character has only a normal attack and a special once they can use every so often) nor the importance of placement (or at least, it's a very basic one). I will give it another shot tomorrow, but had I bought it on another store, I would have asked a refund.