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Titan Souls
Developer Acid Nerve
Titan Souls is a 2015 action-adventure game developed by Acid Nerve and published by Devolver Digital. It was released for Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Android. Titan Souls received generally positive reviews and has been cited as an early example of a Soulslike, a game genre directly inspired by the Dark Souls series. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
269 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
118 positive · 79 negative
95% range 53–66%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
10,940 of 13,901 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 269 · most liked firstLudum Dare is the best game jam and Mike Kasprzak is a lovely dude who has been running it for nearly 20 years now. Some of the games started during LD jams include: Inscryption Titan Souls Broforce McPixel Mini Metro Evoland Support Ludum Dare! Support Mike! www.patreon.com/mikekasprzak...
unlabelledView post →Okay, Tunic legit has me in a chokehold. I've NEVER had a video game that made me want to take out a journal and TAKE NOTES?? Like I'm so confused but also intrigued, it's giving Titan Souls or Death's Door and I LOVE THAT
unlabelledView post →Titan Souls is a soulslike with an interesting and unique gimmick. Your only weapon in the game is a bow with a single arrow. If you shoot the arrow and you miss your shot, you have to recall it to get another shot. To balance this, almost every boss in the entire game dies in just one shot. However, so do you. This makes for an interesting experience, as most bosses have a very specific weak spot that needs to be revealed first, before you can attack it. This makes every boss a unique puzzle…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The premise for the game is clear and interesting in execution; you are just as fragile as the boss, and you only have a single arrow. As such, every encounter is a puzzle in which you search for the weakness of the boss and the right opportunity to kill it instantly. It's pure gameplay and unique in its own way. The big issue is the checkpoint system, and that alone made me stop playing. Instead of having an option to immediately retry a boss, you are sent back to a checkpoint and are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the only review you will need for this game 1. controller is a must, if you don't have one just DO NOT buy this game, keyboard and mouse is literally unplayable 2. to run fast, long press the dash button, will help you a ton especially in stairs 3. each boss has a unique way of killing him, you could do it in 10 seconds or in a few whole minutes of dodging, just get the gist of the boss and you'll kill it quite fast, not too hard, not for dopamine addicts definitely 4. worth buying…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →backtracking for no reason makes it tedious and boring, other than that the idea is pretty cool.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wanted to like this game but after playing for about an hour and beating 7 bosses I've found myself more frustrated than anything. First of all game recommends controller but does not support my PlayStation 5 controller, steam usually is able to translate the inputs for games without support but for whatever reason this game was the exception and I was forced to play on mouse and keyboard. Secondly, I find the whole concept of "one shot to kill the boss" more frustrating than anything…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty bad.. You spend more time walking around and respawning than actually playing the game. Figuring out the bosses is a boring chore and the achievement list makes me gag.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally spent more time walking to the bosses after each respawn than actually enjoying the fights. Out of my 26 minutes, around 20 of them were spent pointlessly walking through the locations i've already seen before, losing interest in the whole game. Way to go, caught my interest just to lose it immediately by wasting my time for nothing. Regret buying it even with a discount, if i wanted to waste my time without anything to enjoy i'd rather stare at a wall for free. Because that's exactly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has a good concept and I like the boss designs, but the controls feel sluggish which kills it for me. Oh and don't remind me about the stairs; I have no idea you are not allowed to roll up the stairs, it frustratingly slows down the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gonna catch my best friend playing some Titan Souls tonight. 😊💕 www.youtube.com/live/mUaSoFS...
unlabelledView post →The last game I finished was a fun little indie game called Titan Souls. Nice little game where you have to fight a bunch of bosses, but the bosses are more like little puzzles because you have to figure out where their weak spot is and how to hit it.
unlabelledView post →I'd love to reccomend Titan Souls, I really do, the single recalling arrow gimmick is a great concept and is fun at times, the designs are awesome, the boss fights are creative, but... Many gameplay aspects are horribly executed and make it a frustrating, unfair experience rather than hard, unlike many other souls-likes. First of all, the control scheme can't be changed in any non-external way, and it's annoying especially when paired with the fact that default control are arrow keys,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool concept horrible execution. The exploration is pointless. The fights boil down to dodge dodge dodge and hope you can get a split second shot off while doing it. You can't roll upstairs in a game that has no enemies outside so it makes the slog from save point to fight even longer. The screen shake is at a level that is nauseating and there is no way to turn it down or off. I also had to find a fix before even playing because the game wasn't centered on screen. Not even worth the $1.50 on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A minimalist boss-rush game where both you and every boss die in a single hit, armed only with a single bow and arrow. The tension during each encounter is incredible, and landing that one perfect shot after dying twenty times feels amazing. However, having to constantly run back to the boss arena after every quick death gets tedious pretty fast. High frustration, but high reward for patient players.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game commits the cardinal sin of gaming. It is boring. There's more running back than fighting the bosses. On top of that, the bosses are boring to fight because the game's controls feel incredibly stiff. There's an incredible amount of baffling and worthless exploration, too. My recommendation is skip.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game needs a "meh" rating. There isn't really any combat in this game so much as it is just a gimmick. Either you die in one hit or the boss does. Once you understand the gimmick of each fight, it's a matter of navigating the fight by mere inches and milliseconds for your microscopic window of opportunity. When you die, you get sent back to the check point, which is often a fair bit away from the boss arena. Since the fights only take 10 seconds per try, you spend more time on a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite the thumbs down, it is not terrible at all. It ranges from a 4 to a 6 out of 10 for me personally. It has gorgeous art, and music, alongside a cool world reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus. However, the bosses mostly range from frustrating to boring and it all comes down to the fact that they take one hit to kill. Most involve beating your head against the wall until you manage to make that one perfectly timed, pixel perfect shot and then its dead. It often feels empty rather than…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Titan Souls is "Dark Souls" meets "Shadow of the Colossus", but you probably already heard. Everyone keeps bringing up the similarity but fail to accentuate that this game does its own thing! Made by a British indie team of just 2 people, this simple, small and short game proves to be sweaty, deep and not as simple as it seems. The only Souls-like thing about it are the presence of bosses and the annoying backtracking after every death. The only Colossus-like things about it are the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it for like 1€. Got all achievements. The Bad Story not really explained. PC controls are abysmal. You can't change the controls. You can't properly aim the bow like on controller. Some bosses are really frustrating. Like requiring more luck than skill. This goes especially for the endboss. I had an idea on what the "weakspot" of the endboss could be, but just couldn't believe that the creators would do this. Had to look up a guide to check if this was really what I had to do and it was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not for me. I like souls games, I like boss rushes, but this is a bit extreme on the difficulty scale. You have to angle arrows in the exact right way for certain bosses (looking at you Knight Elhanan). I'm sure this is a perfect game for someone, but I'm deleting it...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Final Rating: Mixed Rating TLDR: If you love tough pixel-art boss rush games with cool designs and atmosphere, Titan Souls scratches that itch nicely. But if you're a completionist, the brutal achievement gauntlet (like no-death runs) will likely ruin it for you. Full Thoughts Positive Points: Atmosphere & Art - Great atmosphere that pulls you into this mysterious world. Solid pixel art fits perfectly and looks sharp. Gameplay & Bosses - Interesting core concept of one-hit kills (both…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1. Way too expensive for what it is 2. Money aside, the game core is just frustrating, i like hard games for the feeling of achieving something with my life but this game skips the learning part that makes me enjoy a good challenge. Bosses' patterns r not hard (it lit takes you a few seconds to slay the most of them) the hard part comes by the fact of they having a small weak point which is an instakill but only accessible for short gaps, while ur whole little body is an instakill point all the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is not specifically bad, it is just disgustingly overpriced. The bosses that are in the game are quite and it is not repetetive among them, but by far the main issue is unfortunately the gimmick of the game. Bosses having 1HP seems really cool and interesting on paper but I quickly realized that it in this game, it is not set up properly. Most bosses can be killed in less than half a minute. I genuinely think most of the time I spent running around the map instead of actually fighting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really wish i could give a mixed review but i cant lmao. the idea is phenomenal but the execution of it just falls flat on its face. play Rubinite if you want a challenging boss rush game, as it is much more polished than this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I started playing this game in 2022. It is one of my oldest games because it was right around when I created my account back in 2022. Back then I did not have many games, so I gave this a try. What a real pain. I beat like 14 bosses and then stopped playing. Four years later (now), when I scrolled down my library, nostalgia hit, and I decided to finish the game (normal difficulty, of course). Thanks to some guides, I could beat the game and get some achievements. Overall, it's an enjoyable…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I never finished a souls game in my live... but give me one arrow and a dodge roll and you got my attention.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool concept but the boss fights are not satisfying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TITAN SOULS - Okay, I didn't technically finish because I did not beat the final boss but honestly I kinda hate that fight. Neat pixel art and environments, neat puzzles, but also I don't think I liked this game very much?
unlabelledView post →One arrow is enough when every fight demands absolute focus Titan Souls is a boss rush action game built around a brutal but elegant idea: I die in one hit, and so do the bosses if I can find the right opening. What stood out most to me was how much tension that creates with so little. Each encounter feels like a mix of reflexes, observation, and puzzle solving, and the minimalist world gives the whole experience a lonely, memorable tone. It can be unforgiving, and some trial and error is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want a great example in visual storytelling, this is a game you should study. The lore is spread throughout the world, and tells a grand tale of divinity, power, failure, and the quest for Truth. Unfortunately, the gameplay loop is not as grand. You run around a lot, you get lost and backtrack and get lost some more, you start to wonder if you missed something or the game bugged. None of those happened. The game is just not a very good game from a gameplay perspective. Its a very good…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard, and would be fun, if you didn't have to walk all the way back to the boss when you died. Did not have the pacience to continue playing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good idea stained by too much pointless walking and annoying boss runbacks This is a boss rush where both you and the bosses (of which there are 19) have 1 HP, which makes this more like a puzzle game. Observe the bosses moveset, and figure out their gimmick/weakness/opening to one shot them. (btw: you don't have i-frames with dodge rolls) BUT, the game opens up too much in the 2nd area. You will spend quite some time running around in a relatively big and empty map to find the bosses…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do not care if this game is meant for controller every game should have the option to change the keyboard controls . will be refunding
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →oh i beat it already. 70% runback and map traversal, 20% unskippable animations, 10% puzzle bossfight gameplay. find the boss, figure out the thing, execute it. the art's neat, and controls felt responsive, although bare. the second you beat the final boss, a steam achievement pops up, which if you had any sense of immersion or simply experiencing the game's world or its atmosphere during its final moments, you are instantly pulled out of it. any interest in endgame "Beat the game on awesome…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most involved gaming experiences I've ever had. Gotta play it again soon, it's been a decade since I last played it. Time to see if I've fallen off.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you enjoy walking and watching death animations more than gameplay, this is the game for you!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bosh rush game where you have 1 arrow without croshair. It is extremely hard with this control scene, and I'm no machosisist like the rest of the positive reviews, so thumbs down because it looks fun, but no accessibility options
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is boss fights, and walking around between bosses. The walk between bosses is not fun, just a tedious walk. The boss themselves are not great. You have 1 hp, they have 1 hp, and you have a bow with a single arrow you have to retrieve. It's more like mini puzzles to understand how you are supposed to damage the boss, then a ton of luck to execute the plan, with a touch of skill. Any time you die, you have to take a walk back, which makes the game even more tedious. A well made game,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game consists solely of boss fights, and those aren't even fun. It's a "run around until you get a hit on the boss and hope you don't die in the meantime" simulator. Even with a gamepad, controls are janky and the sprint/roll system isn't responsive enough to facilitate it being used as it is. Definitely not worth the asking price of almost NZ$22
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I 100%'d the game on the Switch around the time of it's launch (without achievements) I can easily recommend the game, it's often on sale for only 5 bucks Music is fantastic, art style is adorable, gameplay is smooth, length is just well with a nice post-game bit^^ Acid Nerve also made Titan Souls
unlabelledView post →Another game I finished this days was Perennial Order (thanks to @ironpineapple.bsky.social video on souls-likes). A cool boss-rush on the line of Titan Souls and Eldest Souls, always feeling fair and challenging, the terrific art-style and designs adds so much to the ambience.
unlabelledView post →Hi folks, Carlos here 👋 A brazilian indie+hobist gamedev here in Brazil I'm making The Tale of Dragons and Oceans a boss rush, semi-bullet-hell game about a mother thats loses his son for the ocean and will do evething to get him back, inspired in Titan Souls and Enter the Gungeon
unlabelledView post →The different boss mechanics can be quite punishing (its a difficult game) but making the player run back and forth every time you die is just the ultimate time wasting mechanic. Its definitely unique, but personally I would rather play other games where you can interact more with the boss, compared to spending 5mins to try and hit a small hitbox, dying, then spending another 30s running back to the boss again. It gets extremely annoying after awhile, wouldn't recommend this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an alright short game, art is good, gameplay is very straightforward, music is ok with some standouts. I think it's best to think of it as a sort of puzzle game, every boss has some kind of gimmick that you have to figure out, most of them feel pretty finicky to deal with and I honestly didn't find a lot of them to be fun. The biggest problem is that every boss fight is potentially <15 seconds long on a good attempt, meanwhile every death has an unnecessary walk back in a world that is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →honestly even at 90% off like i got it im not happy, i was expecting an actually challenging enjoable game, this starts off as that and quickly turns into "dodge every time its off cooldown and find the millisecond you get to attack the weak point" thats not enjoyable its monotonous and frustrating.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought the bad reviews about the runbacks were exaggerating. But after getting through the first gate, walking to the boss with the floating platforms in the water, dying, and respawning on the elevator which activated and took me back down a level making me wait to then ride it back up I knew it was bad. Tried to find a different boss and found the mushroom (and its nearby checkpoint). Tried that a couple of times. Spent 15 minutes looking for a mod to respawn outside of the boss room…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You spend more time running from the check point to the boss than the actual boss fight
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is no real difficulty in this game you can literally kill almost every boss within seconds and they're genuinely not even hard they're just extremely annoying to fight, like you can literally dodge all of them by just running in any way constantly and hitting doesn't even require skill or proper timing. You also don't even spend most of the game fighting but running around the map or running back, like I literally kill a boss within a minute then spend several minutes navigating this map…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DON'T play with keyboards. Different scenarios for RNG makes sometimes impossible to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A lot of the reviews of this game complain about the price tag, saying that the game is too short to be 15 dollars. This is because a significant amount of people think anything over 10 dollars should equate to endless replay-ability, an idea created by the endless slew of indie roguelikes. If I buy a movie for 10 dollars I don't ask to be able to rewatch it 20 times and still like it just as much, but for some reason this is the expectation loaded onto indie games. If you expect endless…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My controller literally just won't connect, despite connecting to EVERYTHING else. Would love to play on keyboard instead, but they don't let you change keybinds. When was this released again? 2015? TRASH!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remember Titan Souls? That game has no right to be so pretty.
unlabelledView post →Whoever designed the keybinds needs to be locked up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One Punch Man One arrow child.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has some great boss battles, but I've never played a game with such a terrible attack system. The game is already difficult, and on top of that, to attack you have to hold down the attack button and use the arrow keys to control the direction of the attack (forward, backward, left, right, and diagonally). As if that weren't enough, after each attack you have to recall your arrow while standing still. The developers' terrible decisions have ruined a game with potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In my latest video I took a look at The Bar Souls, a soulslike game where you play as a health bar that reminds me a bit of Titan Souls #indiegames youtu.be/bfrszfocTkE
unlabelledView post →As of today, Nier (2010) is the 17th best game of all time according to me, directly below Titan Souls and directly above God of War (2018). It is part of Tier 3. There are 48 tiers and 541 games in the list. #PixelRankings
unlabelledView post →#161: Titan Souls An excellent, miniature Shadow of the Colossus-like boss-athon. Titan Souls is also one of the earliest indie "Soulslikes". I think SOTC and Dark Souls go together like chocolate and peanut butter. The bosses all feel distinct from each other and the game is hard but very fair.
unlabelledView post →In today's Adan Plays Through His Backlog, I'm playing a boss rush game influenced by Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Legend of Zelda! Join me at 10pm SGT (9am EST) for #TitanSouls! @devolverdigital.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JJ...
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