Rough Souls

Rough Souls combines exploration, animal taming and naval travel with three modes: Adventure, Souls and Rough. Across about 1.5–2 hours of content, you explore a handcrafted world, take on bosses and sail into a frozen area and an underground crystal city.

Adventure mode

You can pick up, throw and eat items, jump and climb through the environment, tame and ride animals such as the Saiga Antelope, navigate ships and talk to NPCs for quests. Near the start, a quest-giving NPC leads into a world with hidden areas, a parkour section featuring falling barrels, and a mini-challenge zone for taming and exploration. At the port, you can buy a ship after earning enough gold.

Boss modes

Souls Mode offers one Souls-style boss encounter, available early through an NPC quest. The standalone encounter focuses on dodging, learning the boss’s patterns and punishing mistakes.

In Rough Mode, you fight powerful mini-bosses in directional 1v1 combat arenas accessed from the port. Mouse movements control the direction of your attacks and parries. Enemies have unique abilities, and defeating Rough bosses earns gold toward buying your ship.

The final journey

After buying the ship, you sail into an ice basin and face three marine monsters: a giant snake, a kraken and an anglerfish. You collect explosives, survive encounters with multiple enemies and escape the frozen trap. The journey then descends into a glowing underground crystal city, where you face five more Rough bosses. After you defeat them, a dragon captures you, ending the game.