Souldiers

Souldiers is a 2022 Metroidvania video game with role-playing elements developed by Retro Forge and published by Dear Villagers. It released on 2 June 2022 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Souldiers is a 2D action-adventure metroidvania with soulslike combat. The player can select one of three classes at the beginning of the game, Scout, Archer, and Caster, each with different abilities and combat styles. The player has access to light and heavy attacks, a dodge ability, and class-specific utility abilities. Throughout the story the player gains the ability to infuse their attacks with different elements, allowing them to deal more damage to enemies of a certain element in exchange for taking more damage from others. The available elements are: Fire, Earth, Lightning, Water, and Wind.