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Death’s Door has broken my tiny brain

February 7, 2022RockPaperShotgun

Death’s Door is a great little game. I’ve been meaning to play it properly for a while, ever since I was told that you can slice signposts in half and then when you try and read it there’s only half of the text left. And so what better game, I thought, to test out the new cloud gaming beta on the Xbox this weekend? (In fact, I ended up downloading the game because it streamed fine at like 10am but at peak times it went all pixely, like someone had huffed on my glasses.) Reader, I bloody love Death’s Door….

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Death’s Door is my kind of Soulslike, and I just can’t get enough of it

November 12, 2021RockPaperShotgun

Listen, folks, I’m going to hold up my hands and tell you something shocking. I don’t get Dark Souls. I’ve tried to play FromSoftware’s much lauded masterpieces several times over the years, but I’m simply not good enough at them to find them enjoyable. No matter how much you try and tell me about the sweet satisfaction you feel after finally beating a boss on the 57th attempt, I’ve come to realise I simply don’t have the time or the patience to see it through. I’m not sure I ever will, either. It’s the same reason I tend to veer…

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Death’s Door is coming to PS4, PS5, and Switch next month

October 27, 2021VG247

You can soon gather souls on platforms other than PC and Xbox. Death’s Door, the fantasy action-adventure about a crow that collects souls, is coming to PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch on November 23. PlayStation owners can pre-order now. Death’s Door features a quirky and curious world where crows are in charge of collecting the souls of the dead. For one, the job gets a bit out of the ordinary when its assigned soul is stolen. In order to get it back, you will need to track down a thief to a realm untouched by death. Here, creatures grow past…

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Death’s Door review: a sturdy and often funny fable about death

July 20, 2021RockPaperShotgun

If grimdark is a genre, then so must be cutedark. Death’s Door glides into this camp on gossamer wings. It’s got Hollow Knight‘s dimples but not its teeth. It’s lighter, an appropriately feathery game. For long stretches it is refreshingly untaxing with a few challenging battles. This lightness is its strength. The soulslike undertones are mostly a facade and it is less inspired by Lordran than it is by Hyrule. There are fluffy puzzles, curious dungeons and cute characters with JiGgLiNg diALoGuE tExT. I foresee any Nintendo likers out there immediately thinking: “I’ll get this on my Switch”. Sadly, you…

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Death’s Door is the new boss battler from the makers of Titan Souls

March 27, 2021RockPaperShotgun

Untitled Goose Game cast you as the naughty resident of a parochial village, and it only makes sense that a game in which you play as a crow sends you into some strange demon dimension. So it is in Death’s Door, in which you control a crow trying to retrieve their “assigned soul” by battling beasts and demigods in a “realm untouched by death.” It’s from the developers of Titan Souls, and there’s an announcement trailer below. Read more

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