Bloodborne and Lies Of P players should check out Withering Realms, an action-RPG with combat dolls and graveyards

One of my Xmas enactment container games past twelvemonth was Withering Rooms, a delightfully frightful haunted location action-RPG that balances mazey Metroidvania level plan with the quality to beryllium a witch who tin supersize herself and gallop astir connected suits of magic armour. With a speedy glimpse implicit my enarthrosis astatine our beloved person Sir Eugene Optimisation, I situation to picture it arsenic a spot similar Bloodborne, if Bloodborne had been made by a tiny autarkic developer.

Also alternatively Bloodborney: the precocious revealed Withering Realms, a sequel of sorts successful which you play a shade miss clinging to the backmost of a customisable combat doll. Sir Eugene Optimisation requests I adhd present that the doll conceit reminds him of well-received Soulslike Lies Of P. Which is simply a just observation, I think, though I would besides accidental the doll’s lipless, one-eyed grimace reminds maine of Mouthwashing. How’s that, Eugene – 3 for three? Anyway, here’s a trailer.

As the rubric suggests, the cardinal alteration present from Withering Rooms is that you’re nary longer confined to a azygous location and grounds. Instead, you’ll get to “explore the mysterious municipality of Penwyll and the sprawling graveyards, tombs, caves and rotting estates that situation it”, with combat present unfolding connected a afloat 3D plane. The twelvemonth is 1926, but not arsenic you whitethorn callback it if you hap to beryllium 100 years old. In Withering Realms, the archetypal World War was interrupted by an occult lawsuit which has caused the dormant to locomotion and spirits to roam. It’s besides fixed definite radical the quality to formed spells.

The shade miss is Clover, who died during the supra occult event. She’s capable to interact with the satellite lone done the doll, which tin thankfully beryllium outfitted with a scope of bludgeoning, carving oregon shooting implements, including a “pivoting greatsword” and a “chain rock”. The doll aside, Clover has an state successful “daring freelance investigator” Althea - 1 of the fewer different characters who tin spot her.

I inactive request to decorativeness Withering Rooms but this looks similar much of what I enjoyed astir that game. There are immoderate involved-sounding overworld mechanics: you tin “expand the satellite representation by defeating monolithic perimeter guardians”, and instrumentality to areas astatine nighttime “to brushwood new, horrifying creatures and secrets”.

Read much connected Steam. It’s slated to merchandise successful Q4 2025.