Tormented Souls
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Tormented Souls is an adventure developed by Abstract Digital works, released 27 August 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $4.29 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Tormented Souls is
Tormented Souls is an adventure game developed by Abstract Digital works and released in 2021. It was published by PQube. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2020.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tormented Souls is a 2021 survival horror video game developed by Dual Effect and published by PQube for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions were cancelled in February 2021 but were eventually released in February 2022. A sequel, Tormented Souls 2, was released in 2025.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 29 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Tormented Souls holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 2.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.29, that works out to about $0.29 per hour of the main story, or $0.11 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz or equivalent, 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 550 Ti / Radeon HD 6790 2GB VRAM*. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.29 at GameBillet, 79% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Tormented Souls launched on 27 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Twelve Minutes. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tormented Souls yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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