Soulash

Soulash is a turn-based, combat-focused roguelike told from the viewpoint of a villain: a forgotten god who escapes imprisonment and seeks to regain power by taking souls from hundreds of enemies. You travel an open world to conquer and destroy its settlements, from gnome villages and dwarven keeps to hot deserts, a massive Capital City and the Black Pyramid. The game’s story unfolds through character monologues, dialogue and location descriptions during encounters.

A world to destroy

Your actions can change the landscape permanently. Kill other gods and consume their souls to alter the world on a massive scale: rivers turn to blood, winter arrives, and darkness covers the land as the sun dies. Souls you take do not return to life, and you can kill everyone in the world.

Combat and abilities

Combat is tactical and turn-based, with weather and terrain affecting encounters. You can use more than 150 abilities to intimidate, corrupt or kill your enemies. The world contains hundreds of different enemies, including over 50 powerful unique enemies, bosses and gods. Necromancers have no limit on the number of creatures they can summon.

You can play as different villainous characters, including a Berserker who can butcher NPCs for meat, a Warlock who tortures mortals with fire and electricity, a Lich Necromancer who raises zombies and skeletons, or a Goblin Inquisitor. The game offers 8 professions and 15 races, along with multiple starting positions and alternative routes to victory.

Loot and crafting

Enemies are generated with different sets of magic items in each playthrough, and they drop what they carry when they die, including artifacts. Outside combat, you can grow cabbages, milk cows, gather honey, fish, cook and make items. Production skills include woodcutting, mining, harvesting, gathering, threshing, fishing, butchering and skinning.

World and replayability

The open world is made up of 350 alternative regions, with varied locations to discover and character builds to try. Its terrain is destructible, and weather affects combat. The game also includes Steam leaderboards and achievements.

Modding tools

In-game editors and configuration files let you create maps, abilities, professions, races, items and weather conditions, or make a total conversion mod to build a fantasy world of your own.