Immortal Planet is an amazing isometric “Soulslike“ in a sci-fi setting. If you've played Dark Souls and some of the already existing Soulslikes (for example: Lords of the Fallen or Salt and Sanctuary) you will immediatly feel at home in this game. For those of you, who don't know what „Soulslike“ means: it is a term to describe games that share similar gameplay with Dark Souls. That gameplay consists of: - RPG mechanics (stats of character/weapons matter a lot). But Soulslikes being RPGs does not mean that there is heavy emphasis on story (Storytelling tends to be minimal in those games). Also there are no dialog options/choice&consequence. So they could be described as a more complex Action-RPG. - A grim interconnected (sort of) open world with many shortcuts. - A special saving system in which you manually save your progress in the game at a certain place and when you've died, you start from the last savepoint. - Tough bossfights and even standard enemies can be more difficult than bosses in other games like Skyrim or any other popular mainstream RPG. - You are going to die quite often and upon dying you are going to lose your experience but you are able to get it back. Unless you die a second time, before retrieving your lost xp (assuming that this is also the case with Immortal Planet; I've not died twice yet). - Stamina managment in combat and timing your attacks; also rolling/dashing to evade incoming attacks. So this list shows you what to expect from Immortal Planet, because it fulfills each and every of those „requirements“ to make it a Soulslike. You just have to know what you get when buying this kind of game and you will have lots of fun with Immortal Planet. This is not your average ARPG like Diablo or Grim Dawn. I personally like Immortal Planet very much and I can heartily recommend it to any fan of Dark Souls. Big thumbs up !
