Caroline Walker Returns Next Year in Tormented Souls II - Hardcore Gamer

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Gamescom has really hit the ground running this year. It’s only been one day since the event kicked-off, and already there’s all manner of exciting new info and video for both major games like Tekken 8 and more minor projects such as RoboCop: Rogue City. Fans have also seen a few surprise announcements, one of which being Tormented Souls 2. As good as its predecessor is, it’s probably safe to say that nobody saw this coming.

Alongside the announcement trailer above, PQube and developer Dual Effect provided fans with a few enticing morsels of info to help get the excitement going. For starters, Caroline Walker is back and she’s unfortunately found herself in the midst of another dark plot. She’s not just getting thrown into it out of nowhere this time though. Instead, it sounds like Caroline herself has sought out this new haunted location, the isolated town of Puerto Miller, in search of a something capable of curing her younger sister of a strange and terrible illness.

From the way it’s described on the Steam page, it’s sounding like Caroline’s new nightmare will not be confined to a single building like in the first Tormented Souls, but rather will see her exploring Puerto Miller in its entirety both above ground and below. Dual Effect also took care to highlight that the original’s makeshift weapons, item-combining and brain-scratching puzzles are all making their return alongside Caroline as well. In other words, all the skills she developed last time likely won’t be going to waste.

With Tormented Souls, Dual Effect set out to revive some of the quirks and qualities of late 90’s/early 00’s horror games that’ve gotten left behind over the past couple of decades, and it largely succeeded. Limited save items, item-based