Soulstone Survivors is an motion roguelite that quickly transforms you from a peasant to a god. It’s type of like when you had been enjoying a Path of Exile character from stage 1 to 99, however in about 20 minutes, and it doesn’t matter what energy fantasy you may dream of – from a Wizard who controls the weather, to a holy Paladin, to a nuke-hurling Engineer – you can see it in our recreation.
After just a few years of growth, listening intently to our PC group, the sport is lastly coming to Xbox Sequence X|S on June 17, 2025.
A demo can also be obtainable now on Xbox Sequence X|S, and we’ve pulled collectively some tricks to encourage some construct concepts, in addition to the way to get probably the most enjoyable out of them.
The liberty to construct your character precisely the way you need is what units Soulstone Survivors aside, and also you’ll have the ability to take a look at it in opposition to the risks of the Void. And, when you didn’t fancy what you tried… simply iterate and check out once more till you discover absolutely the good construct.
Soulstone Survivors is designed from the bottom up so that you can push it to the intense. For instance, when your crucial probability exceeds 100%, your assaults begin touchdown multi-crits. We now have an attribute known as multicast, which lets you launch a number of copies of the identical ability (corresponding to Chain Lightning or the dagger-hurling Flurry) directly – and guess what? Because it will get larger and over 100%, you could be launching two, three, and even ten copies of the identical ability directly. Whereas many video games may cap these stats, Soulstone Survivors provides you the liberty to expertise what true god-like energy appears like.
Whereas it’s straightforward to leap in with primary character setups, the sport shines while you go deep into the totally different techniques that play off one another to create game-breaking builds, and we’re at all times shocked with the creativity of the group – we like it when somebody posts a brand new construct on Discord with some loopy technique that we didn’t even suppose was attainable!
Buffs Are Your Buddies
Buffs are results utilized to your character which offer you a bonus in opposition to your enemies. For instance, every stack of “Prowess” (i.e. every time you acquire/enhance your “Prowess”) provides you 1% additional injury. Though specializing in a particular buff could be a highly effective technique, it’s a good suggestion to create a construct with just a few totally different buffs that play off one another. There are power-ups that can grant you an opportunity to achieve a buff each time a distinct buff is utilized. “Devastating Strikes”, for instance, grants you an opportunity to achieve an Aptitude stack (which will increase your crucial injury) for each Prowess stack you acquire.
Destructive Results Are Your Buddies Too
Destructive results are the counterpart to buffs. These are utilized onto your enemies, weakening them indirectly. These can empower you to do ten instances (and even a whole bunch of instances) extra injury to your opponents, relying on what mixture you get. A very good one is “Poison”, which is able to deal injury over time and, when the enemy dies, a portion of the remaining injury spreads to close by enemies. Or there’s “Fragility”, which will increase injury acquired by the enemy for every stack. It’s at all times a good suggestion to have not less than a pair totally different destructive results as a substitute of going all out in a single.
Think about Your Talent Varieties
Every ability or assault within the recreation has a specific sort, corresponding to Hearth or Electrical. Whenever you’re attempting to maximise your energy, you’ll positively wish to take into consideration the ability sorts. You would do a brilliant targeted construct, as some power-ups will improve the injury of all expertise of a specific sort, generally by as a lot as 50%.
Alternatively, you can combine and match totally different ability sorts, as there are power-ups that can chain totally different ability sorts – for instance, while you solid an Electrical ability, you’ll then have a sure probability to additionally solid a Hearth ability. It actually is dependent upon the type of gameplay that fits you greatest!
Strive Out Completely different Stuff!
There are loads extra components that affect your construct, such because the ability tree, Runes (artifacts you equip earlier than every run with distinctive results), your weapons (which you craft as you progress via the sport), your character’s ascension ability (a brief god-like energy you acquire after unlocking all of the core expertise).
The necessary factor is to experiment with totally different components till you discover the patterns that work and those that don’t, discovering the play model that fits you greatest. I don’t know if I ought to, however right here, I’ll share with you my secret Bloody Barbarian construct!
The Bloody Barbarian Construct
The Barbarian is the primary obtainable character within the demo, however don’t mistake him for the weakest – removed from it! He focuses on melee fight, getting access to Swing, Thrust, Slam, Electrical and Earth expertise, and all of those are nice to make some loopy buff synergies!
The important thing factors for this construct are:
- Select the Barbarian together with his first weapon, the Barbaric Cleavers
- Search for expertise that buff you with Finesse, corresponding to Double Slash
- Ensure to get the ability Scent of Blood
- Seize some popcorn, as you watch what occurs!
Alright, let’s break it down. All Barbarian weapons are nice, however for this construct we’ll begin with the Barbaric Cleavers, the primary weapon obtainable, because it comes with “Whirlwind”, which has a big injury space. Extra importantly, it grants you each “Bulwark” (which will increase your block energy) and “Finesse” (will increase your multicast probability), the core of our construct!
Begin the sport, and be looking out for expertise with the Swing sort, as a lot of these may even offer you extra “Finesse”. Earth-type expertise additionally synergise very effectively with this construct, since they grant you “Colossal” which will increase the world of impact of your assaults, and also you wish to be slashing the entire world! Keep in mind to save lots of a ability slot for “Scent of Blood”.This can be a ability distinctive to the Barbarian which will increase your assault pace primarily based on the variety of “Finesse” stacks you’ve gotten.
By now, your Swing expertise offers you tons of “Finesse” stacks which improve your multicast, which in flip means all of your expertise are used a number of instances, and they are going to be hitting an enormous space as a result of your Earth expertise may even be launched a number of instances granting you much more “Colossal”. Lastly, the cherry on prime is “Scent of Blood” because it makes use of your “Finesse” stacks to grant you even MORE assault pace, which causes your expertise to be launched even quicker! Do you see the place I’m going with this?
The insanity that ensues is wonderful! You’ll quickly be spinning like a mad man, decimating a whole screenful of enemies each second! You’ll be able to even add within the ability “Subdue” into the combination as effectively, which offers injury primarily based on what number of stacks of “Finesse” you’ve gotten, being an ideal finisher that will probably be dealing a whole bunch of hundreds of injury on this setup!
Within the full recreation, you can also make this construct much more excessive by selecting up just a few runes, such because the Synergetic Rune, because it will increase the possibilities you’re going to get power-ups that chain from one buff to a different and the Multicast Mastery Rune, as a result of it will increase the effectiveness of the multicasts. Runes aren’t obtainable within the demo, however even with out them you may be slicing via enemies like butter.
And this is just one construct, of 1 character, within the demo, with out exploring runes, ascensions, ability bushes… it barely scratches the floor of what you are able to do! You would additionally strive the Thor Barbarian construct with a bunch of Lightning expertise which are nice for crucial strikes, the nasty Soiled Barbarian that makes use of Slams and Earth ability for large injury, or experiment with the Pyromancer (additionally obtainable within the demo), and convey down a fiery apocalypse onto your enemies!
I hope that this sparks your creativeness and encourages you to discover all of the construct, buffs and energy fantasies which are attainable in Soulstone Survivors. Hop into the demo on Xbox Sequence X|S right this moment.
