Everywhere you look, a new souslike is cropping up. It’s a subgenre ruled by FromSoftware and one that, while it has an ever-growing and extensive list of entrants, is rarely done right. In everyone’s bid to both capture the lightning in the bottle that is the Souls series and carve out their own path with unique mechanics, settings or any number of standout features. It’s a tall order, to say the least. And it’s one that Trialforge Studio hopes to fill with Deathbound, the latest of the soulslikes to step through the foggy wall. – IS
