Ludography
74/100
Players24 ratings
71/100
Critics6 reviews
More scores
Metacritic28 critic reviews
70/100
Metacritic usersuser score
70/100
GameFAQsEasy-Just Right
3.93/5
Player reviews
78% positive1,417 reviews
Steam Deck
Playable
Runs on
Windows, Mac, Linux
Price
US$14.99

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2018 · Devolver Digital · Action-adventure · Adventure

Crossing Souls

It’s 1986 in California and a group of friends will live the summer of their lives after a mysterious discovery in woods outside their quiet town. By uncovering an artifact whose powers they don’t fully understand, these remarkable kids will defy the laws of nature and somehow interact between two planes of reality: life and death. Their curiosity will trigger a series of unexpected events that will get them involved in a government conspiracy and a mysterious U.S. Army general with his own nefarious plans.

Released
2018
Platforms
LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation VitaWindowsmacOS
Genres
Action-adventureAdventureArcadeIndieRole-playing
Developers
Devolver Digital
Publishers
Devolver Digital
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionFantasy
Country
Spain
Age ratings
CERO BESRB MGRAC 15+CLASS_IND 14ACB MPEGI 12
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
9hmain story11hcompletionist

About

Crossing Souls is a 2018 action-adventure video game developed by Spanish studio Fourattic and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released on 13 February 2018 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux PlayStation 4 and 26 July 2018 on Nintendo Switch. Game centers around group of friends, who discover a mysterious pink stone that allows them to travel between two realms, leading them into an adventure involving a government conspiracy. Player controls five kids with special skills while fighting and solving puzzles.

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

In 1986 in Tajunga, California, five teenage friends, baseball fan Chris, his younger, obnoxious brother Kevin, bookworm inventor Matt, gold hearted muscle Big Joe and tomboy Charlie, discover a corpse of McKittrick near the town's river with a Duat Stone. Taking the stone home and driven by curiosity, Matt is able to build a device with which the friends are able to unlock and control the stone's power. Though the friends do not fully understand the artifact's power, they find out that it allows them to see and interact with the spirits of the dead. However, said stone also drains the life source of those who hold it. This gets Kevin tragically killed when they run into street gang leader, Quincy Queen, who steals the stone.

After the funeral and several days of mourning, the four friends steal back the stone and use it to talk with Kevin's spirit. They also meet the ghost of McKittrick, who reveals that he used to work for former U.S. Army general Major Oh Russ, who had organized the Duat Stone's recovery and thus use it to control the deceased to accomplish his world invasion plan. McKittrick rebelled and stole the Duat stone.

Development

T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Super 8, while the level design and the orthogonal view were adapted from the original The Legend of Zelda, with the animation style of the cutscenes having been inspired by Teen Wolf, Saint Seiya, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all of which are items of the 1980s. Development on the game started in January 2014, after the final update for Fourattic's previous game, Bin This Pic: Guess the Wrong One (or Odd Pic Out), was released. The pre-production was first presented to the public through the TIGSource forums on 5 February 2014.

In the forums, it was met with a positive reception, thus, development was continued and team members regularly posted development updates. Around March 2014, the team was running out of money, wherefore the development on the game was halted, enabling the team to create Pixel Puzzle Mania, a free-to-play puzzle video game for iOS, published by Genera Games, which was released on 29 August 2014. In August 2014, Fourattic partnered with Devolver Digital for a publishing deal on Crossing Souls. On 17 November 2014, the game was brought to Kickstarter, aiming for US$45,000.

Reception

Crossing Souls received "generally favourable reviews" for the PlayStation 4 version, while the Windows and Nintendo Switch versions were met with "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Linux13 February 2018Worldwide
macOS13 February 2018Worldwide
Windows13 February 2018Worldwide
PlayStation 413 February 2018Worldwide
Nintendo Switch26 July 2018North America

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