SteelRising Proves a Soulslike's Setting Can Make or Break It

It goes without saying that the soulslike genre is slightly overcrowded at the moment. Spiders is the latest developer to try its hand at replicating this magic formula with action-RPG SteelRising, which draws heavy inspiration from FromSoftware's catalog of games. The very nature of the soulslike genre is to copy the formula that works so well, and this means it can inevitably be very difficult for one game to differentiate itself from the others, with fundamentals such as combat and skill trees all feeling very similar between titles. SteelRising makes no attempt to be different in this regard. It does, however, put players in the middle of a war-torn 17th Century Paris, and this is what really makes it stand out.

Source: Gamerant