Void Sols is an atmospheric and highly customisable Soulslike for people who are rubbish at Soulslikes

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You know me and Soulslikes. We're not particularly best buddies most of the time. We've had a couple of successful outings over the years with the likes of Death's Door and Hollow Knight and company, but anything with pure FromSoft blood running through its veins has always left me cold. Void Sols, however, is an upcoming Soulslike that feels like it might be able to satisfy both sides of the 'git gud' camp, appealing to nervous dodge-rollers like myself while also giving hardened Elden Ringers a run for their money. It's all down to its plentiful supply of approachable customisation options, allowing you to ratchet up the difficulty if you're finding things a bit easy, or knock it down, reapply your stat points, and even create whole new loadouts - each with their own individual stat combinations - to win the day. It's all wonderfully considerate, and having played the free demo that's just launched on Steam, I'd strongly recommend giving it a go if you're feeling in need of a little training ahead of Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree coming out.

You may well have come across Void Sols before now, of course. Back at the end of 2022, solo developer Kartik Kini at Finite Reflection released a short free prologue for the game, mostly to see if there was any player interest to warrant turning it into something more. The demo eventually caught the eye of publisher Modern Wolf, who are now helping Kini turn it into a full game - and today there's a new, spruced up Steam demo to celebrate.

I had a sneak peek of this demo earlier this week and had a smashing time with it - and not just because it looks like Geometry Wars as a top down Soulslike. It's certainly a challenge on its default difficulty mode, but as Kini was keen to point out, the game's been deliberately designed with approachability in mind. As well as Forgiving and God Mode options, for example, you can also whack up its custom difficulty sliders in the other direction to really give yourself an incredibly