Soulstone Survivors is an motion roguelite that quickly transforms you from a peasant to a god. It’s sort of like when you had been taking part in a Path of Exile character from degree 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’ll find it in our recreation.
After a couple of years of improvement, listening carefully to our PC neighborhood, the sport is lastly coming to Xbox Collection X|S on June 17, 2025.
A demo can also be obtainable now on Xbox Collection X|S, and we’ve pulled collectively some tricks to encourage some construct concepts, in addition to find out how 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 be capable of check it towards 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 acute. For instance, when your crucial probability exceeds 100%, your assaults begin touchdown multi-crits. We’ve got an attribute known as multicast, which lets you launch a number of copies of the identical talent (reminiscent of Chain Lightning or the dagger-hurling Flurry) directly – and guess what? Because it will get increased and over 100%, you might be launching two, three, and even ten copies of the identical talent directly. Whereas many video games would possibly cap these stats, Soulstone Survivors offers you the liberty to expertise what true god-like energy looks like.
Whereas it’s simple to leap in with primary character setups, the sport shines once you go deep into the completely different techniques that play off one another to create game-breaking builds, and we’re at all times stunned with the creativity of the neighborhood – we like it when somebody posts a brand new construct on Discord with some loopy technique that we didn’t even suppose was potential!
Buffs Are Your Pals
Buffs are results utilized to your character which provide you with a bonus towards your enemies. For instance, every stack of “Prowess” (i.e. every time you achieve/enhance your “Prowess”) offers you 1% additional harm. Though specializing in a particular buff generally is a highly effective technique, it’s a good suggestion to create a construct with a couple of completely different buffs that play off one another. There are power-ups that can grant you an opportunity to realize a buff each time a special buff is utilized. “Devastating Strikes”, for instance, grants you an opportunity to realize an Aptitude stack (which will increase your crucial harm) for each Prowess stack you achieve.
Adverse Results Are Your Pals Too
Adverse results are the counterpart to buffs. These are utilized onto your enemies, weakening them ultimately. These can empower you to do ten occasions (and even a whole bunch of occasions) extra harm to your opponents, relying on what mixture you get. A very good one is “Poison”, which is able to deal harm over time and, when the enemy dies, a portion of the remaining harm spreads to close by enemies. Or there’s “Fragility”, which will increase harm acquired by the enemy for every stack. It’s at all times a good suggestion to have not less than a pair completely different detrimental results as an alternative of going all out in a single.
Contemplate Your Talent Varieties
Every talent or assault within the recreation has a specific kind, reminiscent of Fireplace or Electrical. If you’re making an attempt to maximise your energy, you’ll positively need to take into consideration the talent varieties. You might do a brilliant targeted construct, as some power-ups will enhance the harm of all expertise of a specific kind, typically by as a lot as 50%.
Alternatively, you could possibly combine and match completely different talent varieties, as there are power-ups that can chain completely different talent varieties – for instance, once you solid an Electrical talent, you’d then have a sure probability to additionally solid a Fireplace talent. It actually relies on the sort of gameplay that fits you greatest!
Attempt Out Completely different Stuff!
There are lots extra components that affect your construct, such because the talent tree, Runes (artifacts you equip earlier than every run with distinctive results), your weapons (which you craft as you progress by the sport), your character’s ascension talent (a brief god-like energy you achieve after unlocking all of the core expertise).
The vital factor is to experiment with completely different components till you discover the patterns that work and those that don’t, discovering the play type 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, accessing 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, reminiscent of Double Slash
- Be certain to get the talent 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 harm 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 kind, as a lot of these may also provide you with extra “Finesse”. Earth-type expertise additionally synergise very effectively with this construct, since they grant you “Colossal” which will increase the realm of impact of your assaults, and also you need to be slashing the entire world! Keep in mind to avoid wasting a talent slot for “Scent of Blood”.This can be a talent distinctive to the Barbarian which will increase your assault velocity based mostly on the variety of “Finesse” stacks you may have.
By now, your Swing expertise gives you tons of “Finesse” stacks which enhance your multicast, which in flip means all of your expertise are used a number of occasions, and they are going to be hitting an enormous space as a result of your Earth expertise may also be launched a number of occasions 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 velocity, which causes your expertise to be launched even sooner! Do you see the place I’m going with this?
The insanity that ensues is superb! 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 talent “Subdue” into the combination as effectively, which offers harm based mostly on what number of stacks of “Finesse” you may have, being an important finisher that will likely be dealing a whole bunch of hundreds of harm on this setup!
Within the full recreation, you can also make this construct much more excessive by selecting up a couple of runes, such because the Synergetic Rune, because it will increase the probabilities 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 can be slicing by enemies like butter.
And this is just one construct, of 1 character, within the demo, with out exploring runes, ascensions, talent timber… it barely scratches the floor of what you are able to do! You might 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 talent for large harm, or experiment with the Pyromancer (additionally obtainable within the demo), and produce 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 potential in Soulstone Survivors. Hop into the demo on Xbox Collection X|S as we speak.
