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Crossing Souls
Developer Fourattic
Crossing Souls is a 2018 action-adventure video game developed by Spanish studio Fourattic and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released on 13 February 2018 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux PlayStation 4 and 26 July 2018 on Nintendo Switch. Game centers around group of friends, who discover a mysterious pink stone that allows them to travel between two realms, leading them into an adventure involving a… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
182 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Sep 21, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
64
Fresh
110 positive · 61 negative
95% range 57–71%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 110 | 61 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
363 of 508 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
64% recommend · 115 yes, 64 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 179 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (1,225 of 1,555 positive).
Many players praise the game's 80s aesthetic, pixel art, and soundtrack. [1][2][3] Some reviewers complain about unskippable cutscenes and high difficulty. [1][4][5] A few players note the story and characters feel clichéd or poorly written. [6][7][8]
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- [5]
So, this is one of those games that has me quite split about them, however I do believe the game setting itself to be one thing and then end up being another warrants the negative review. The game has good points, everyone always mentions them: + Pixel art on point + Music + Pop references and Easter eggs (some more on your nose than others) + Boss battles are memorable, definitely the most challenging part of this …
- [6]
Gameplay: 5/10 Graphics & Sound: 8/10 Narration: 3/10 ✔️ Some nice gameplay ideas, alternating between a team of characters to solve different problems works well. ✔️ Great music, generally good pixel art. ✔️ Successful "retro" feel. 💭 Some variety in the gameplay experience with radically different gameplay phases. Some of them are enjoyable, some of them are PURE HELL. ❌ Tasteless and incipid story and …
- [2]
There is literally nothing I do not love about this game. I haven't experienced joy from a video game this way since I was a teenager. I'm not one to exaggerate either. This game nails the feel of the 80's when you're a kid. The graphics are retro styled and the animations are fantastic. The dialog is top notch, not to mention very funny, and the game is packed with hilarious hidden gems. Combat, along with each …
- [4]
Reasonably good pixelated art style with a nice color palette that matches the time frame it takes place in. This hits somewhere between Stranger Things and Earthbound, with puzzle-solving and character-swapping mechanics. After finishing the game: I have come across a few glaring issues with the game design which I feel are worth pointing out. - You cannot skip cutscenes, even if you had seen them before. - There …
- [1]
Pros: Its super beautiful to look at The music is dope af The whole 80's-90's aesthetic is brilliant The story is beautiful and the pop culture references are super fun cons: I hate the way this game makes you wait for every cut scene to repeat every time you die, i hate that you cannot just save the game at any point you want because the repetition gets so annoying towards the end. i hate that you character has …
Summarised from 34 of the 190 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Crossing Souls sits at 64% positive across 171 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Crossing Souls received "generally favourable reviews" for the PlayStation 4 version, while the Windows and Nintendo Switch versions were met with "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
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Reactions
60 of 182 · most liked firstSo, this is one of those games that has me quite split about them, however I do believe the game setting itself to be one thing and then end up being another warrants the negative review. The game has good points, everyone always mentions them: + Pixel art on point + Music + Pop references and Easter eggs (some more on your nose than others) + Boss battles are memorable, definitely the most challenging part of this game, probably the only parts where you will actually die and have to try…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Did an in-depth review here: https://youtu.be/D3rN2wQ8PwA As it stands, I can't recommend this game at full price. I wish there were a "mixed" review option, because Crossing Souls does a few things right that the devs should get more praise for. Pros: - gorgeous art style - extreme attention to detail, especially in the first area. The worlds feels very alive and authentic. - absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BALLER soundtrack composed by the likes of Chris Köbke and Timecop 1983 - tasteful and clever…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a lot of awesome ideas and on paper is a total banger. But... it there is a lack of polish and playtesting done. This really needed more time in development. There are big issues with not healing at save points and not all characters being able to dodge, climb, and jump. Having the constantly change characters winds up feeling tedious. Children of Morta did the different characters with different abilities concept much better. Most games I don't like I just uninstall and that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay: 5/10 Graphics & Sound: 8/10 Narration: 3/10 ✔️ Some nice gameplay ideas, alternating between a team of characters to solve different problems works well. ✔️ Great music, generally good pixel art. ✔️ Successful "retro" feel. 💭 Some variety in the gameplay experience with radically different gameplay phases. Some of them are enjoyable, some of them are PURE HELL. ❌ Tasteless and incipid story and characters. Everyone is a cliché. Everything is a trope. The tropes become really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a hard review to write and yet another example of how I struggle with Steam's yea or nea review system. I hope you read this review because you might enjoy this game a lot depending on what your expectations are. In essence, the game is designed as an 2d overhead action RPG with a plot that is more or less an homage to 80s young adolescent centered dark fantasy movies that were common at the time. This game is exquisitely designed in how it executes its theme. The graphics, plot,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first 2 hours are amazing. The first 2 chapters and the overall art-style of this game hooked me instantly. The soundtrack, the pixel art, the retro-style cartoon cutscenes and all those little pop-culture references are all well done, and they perfectly set up that 80s Americana feeling. Alas! That was the only good things about Crossing Soul. The rest you'll get is a bland and uninspired adventure. It's served with a disappointing story, that has nothing interesting to offer. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish I could recommend this game. The atmosphere, the soundtrack and the graphics really add to the nostalgia and I found the cut scenes to be amazing. It really brought back the retro days of playing video games in the 90s. However, I found the puzzles to be a huge source of frustration and having to restart something over and over again is something I was fine doing when I was a teenager with endless amounts of free time. They weren't inspiring puzzles and just infuriated me. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm of two minds on this game. The pixel art is charming, and the nostalgia is great! I even enjoyed the puzzle bits! And the gorgeous animated cutscenes were a treat. Unfortunately, the game has a LOT of issues. The story goes off the rails (and not in a good way) in the second half, with most of the main cast simply disappearing. Combine this with a host of infuriating issues, and I simply gave up on the game at the last boss: ~Cutscences are lengthy and unskippable, and in many fights,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game looks great, hits a lot of the nostalgia points, but has too many negatives to recommend. The story, while they are trying for something a little heavier than you would think it doesn't really work. There are tons of nods to 80's culture. Unfortunately, most don't really work. It's a bit corny a lame the way a lot of the 80's stuff is introduced. The worst part for me was the gameplay though. The first half isn't too bad. You can deal with any shortcomings of the controls okay.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →created because of the hype around Stranger Things, obviously, but somehow soulless to me. everything feels calculated and forced.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Appealing at first as the trailers suggest, the game soon become just too much under many points of view, including gameplay mechanics and story. I understand putting a quote in for each and every movie from the 80s, but the container doesn't hold and one grows tired much earlier, IMO, than 3 hours in, as others describe.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: Its super beautiful to look at The music is dope af The whole 80's-90's aesthetic is brilliant The story is beautiful and the pop culture references are super fun cons: I hate the way this game makes you wait for every cut scene to repeat every time you die, i hate that you cannot just save the game at any point you want because the repetition gets so annoying towards the end. i hate that you character has sooo less health that towards the end you are always dying and the game forces you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stream was very fun today! I struggled with Enter the Gungeon for a while, then tried a new game; Crossing Souls. So far, very enjoyable! I love the pixel style! Cramps are on the horizon, so I'll probably continue gaming into the week. See you next time and thanks for all the tips!
positive · AI labelView post →This game is way too punishing if you do not press the exact buttons at the exact time. You will fail over and over and over again and there is no way to skip the cutscenes. I appreciate the art and the ode to 80s media, but I have just had it with the game. The platforming is way too buggy and you cannot remap the controls at all, so your left hand becomes extremely cramped as you try to both jump and hold onto things. What I can only assume is the semi-final boss fight has you facing a group…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crossing Souls was such a weird experience. When I've seen the screenshots, I've fallen in love with the game. When I started playing, I loved the music, it's really outstanding. But the more I played, the less I enjoyed. Tehcnically the game is somewhat lacking. Weird control scheme with mouse and keyboard, no ability to rebind, and basically no visual settings. The game is played in a pseudo-3D environment with sprites, that makes depth perception hard at points. For platforming you need to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels like crossing souls was a passion project that was abbandoned relatively early on. It looks very nice and the opening is pretty intersting but everything else falls apart very quickly. For example, while there are multiple playable characters, some of them are way more fleshed out than others and usually you do not have all of them available, so gameplay is more limited than expected. There is also no character advancement or items or anything of this sort that would make any of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I felt that the premise was cool, the pixel art looked good, and the music was nice. The cartoon cutscenes felt kind of weird, as the art contrasted so much with the rest of the aesthetics. As I played more, I liked it less and less. The story turned kind of lame after a while. Some out of place violence and a tremendous amount of pop culture references seemed like tools to get the player's attention, but they all felt misplaced and unimportant. I realize that, given the story's theme being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is literally nothing I do not love about this game. I haven't experienced joy from a video game this way since I was a teenager. I'm not one to exaggerate either. This game nails the feel of the 80's when you're a kid. The graphics are retro styled and the animations are fantastic. The dialog is top notch, not to mention very funny, and the game is packed with hilarious hidden gems. Combat, along with each character's respective abilities are intuitive, engaging, and amusing, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Damn it, I hated this game yet I really really wanted to like it. It does the 80s justice. Music is the traditional 80s mix between John Williams-like OSTs and synthwave, 80s references are there aplenty, it's obvious they are capitalising on the success of Stranger things (and good for them). But... the gameplay is bad. The camera angle makes for some Ultima-8 kind of bad platforming, the combat and stamina meters are only there to slow you down and certain sequences carry on for way too…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically, Stranger Things: The Game, but not great. This has all the elements of being a fun, campy, teen 80's movie (of which I am a sucker for), but it kinda falls apart or rather never comes together. Personally, I think all of the characters fall flat and I never really cared for any of them. The combat is just button mashing and uneventful with just an attack and dodge button (and the dodge only works half the time). I don't know, the game was just kind of a bore-fest and now thinking…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool game with an interesting plot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've started my uploads for Pixel Picks December!!! The 1st game series is Crossing Souls youtu.be/CegUQGqHyNs?... . . . #pixelgames #crossingsouls #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Unless the game is discounted I dont know if Id recommend it, Aesthetically and musically its really nice, and the characters are great, but its got some serious issues. -First thing you'll notice is how awkward it is to switch between characters. You can only cycle them from left to right and if you accidentally skip the one you need you gotta cycle through it all over again. Theres no reason for this at all and its AWFULLY frustrating when you want to swap to a specific character. -The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve just gone LIVE! 🚨 It's video game day; I'm playing Crossing Souls! 🎮 Tease and trance me with your tips! Control me with a keystroke; I respond to a number of audio triggers! Come play with a desperately horny deeply hypnotized coin operated toy! 🥵💫 live.violentlycurly.com
neutral · AI labelView post →I played Crossing Souls. A game heavily rooted in 80's nostalgia, but that manages to have a surprisingly bold vision that brings it beyond its nostalgic roots. Despite a generally unpolished gameplay and naive writing I can't bring myself to dislike it. It was bolder than lots of 80's revivals.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the best games that has ever been made, an absolute 10/10 banger game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The aesthetic of the game is neat and the first couple hours of the game is fun as you reveal the plot and encounter some nostalgic bits of pop culture from the 80's, the era in which the game is set. It should be fun to control a group of friends that you can quickly switch between, but there is so little variation that the game becomes stale very quickly. It's unfortunate because the style of this game is much better than the mechanics, so for me it became not very fun very quickly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crossing Souls is a nostalgia driven platformer where the nostalgia plays stronger than the actual gameplay. Sure the cut scene art style and music choices are excellent callbacks to another era but the gameplay mechanics are clunky and kept me from ever feeling immersed in the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I saw this game in my library after not having touched it in years, and I'm still so upset about the last two hours of gameplay that I'm marking it down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The last episode of #CrossingSouls is up!! I thoroughly enjoyed this game and im happy it was my main game for Pixel Picks! Next time it won't be Pixel Picks December maybe it'll just be a winter thing 🤔 . . . #PixelGames #indiegames #blackskygamers #blackskygirlgamers . . youtu.be/JiiyPlEcxcg?...
positive · AI labelView post →It feels kind of like an old-school Zelda, though much more linear and with a "beat 'em up lite" quality to the combat. The puzzles are pretty easy-breezy and there's not a wide variety of usable items; you're not going to spend that much time on any one screen and there's almost no backtracking. So there's this sense of speed to the whole thing, gameplay and narrative progression -- you're a kid but getting older, summer vacation no longer seems so long, some innocence is sloughing off and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is Crossing Souls ? This game originally got my attention after I watched some of its preview videos in its store page, it was during a sale and being an indie it means it has an accessible price, to start the game's artstyle is simply beautiful, here we have styllistic spritework that makes the game evoke succesfully a 80s feel without being forced or cheap, it alls comes together as something unique to me, on top of being very detailed and nice to look at some cutscenes are animated…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actual ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. Funny haha look at me im from the 80s. ♥♥♥♥ story that relies on you knowing the 80's were a thing at most. If i do another ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ jumping puzzle ill ♥♥♥♥ my pants. ♥♥♥♥ this game. Legit lost my final ♥♥♥♥ to give at the oh rus fight and have decided to have steam delete this ♥♥♥♥ from my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ library. Literally 2 of the bosses are just ghostbuster characters like damn bro ivan shandor based!!! AND THE LIBRARIAN GHOST I SAW GHOSTBUSTERS BRO!!! I CLAPPED!!!!! Spoiler…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ideas are poorly implemented - the game is boring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You'll rage over the platforming sections near the end even if you are strong with the Force. Other than that, the game is pretty decent.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love the pixel graphics and old school, hand drawn cut scenes. Gameplay is really solid! And the vibes are immaculate! Feels like Stranger Things meets Earthbound to me. A+ soundtrack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its not December anymore but i need to finish this game lol The next episode of Crossing Souls is up!! youtu.be/rophlG6v_PI?... . . . #PixelPicks #crossingsouls #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Im LIVE!!!! It's December so i wanna do what i was trying to do last year and play Pixel Games most of the month!!!!! The 1st game I'm starting with is Crossing Souls www.twitch.tv/lyrical_lin
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is like playing a Spielberg film, with the mood of the storytelling and big moments. The friends relationships really shine in the story and lead to a nice and satisfying ending. Probably the one gripe I have is when it comes to playing through big moment levels, the difficulty goes up quite a bit and can throw the player off a lot. Not that it makes it a bad thing. It actually makes the story feel more grandios to the player. Still, you will be dying a lot. Regardless, best eight…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a cute game with a cool story but it's pretty buggy and way harder than it has any business being, so I made this patch to make it more fun if you want to try it that way nexus mods crossing souls fun mode in case steam eats the link - https://www.nexusmods.com/crossingsouls/mods/1
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Within the first hour there are depictions of like five minority groups that got me to say "boooo" internally. And as for the subject matter, just go play Omori, lol
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a life-long gamer, and as someone who came of age in the "Atari-80's", this game contains all of the nostalgia that made that era wonderful. Great job Fouratic (you showed your age with this one LOL).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the game's art and story are very nice and evocative of a 90s Kids TV show aesthetic, the game is ruined by its actual gameplay. There is not one single issue that breaks it but all of them combined makes it worse than the sum of its parts. Controls. They are not rebindable and as such suck really hard. With keyboard you have to press middle mouse to dodge and why the f would you ever use middle mouse for anything? Gameover. While the how to play screen talks about "switching to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game isn't kidding when it says to use a controller - the controls on keyboard are absolutely terrible. It definitely took the fun out of the gameplay for me, perhaps it would have been better with a controller. I typically enjoy coming of age stories, and I typically enjoy stories about loss - I also enjoy retro 80s aesthetics. It's impressive that this game hits all of these notes, and I still don't like the story. The beginning and middle are decent enough, but the ending feels…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very cool pixel game. Has really cool music. It definitely drags you in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reasonably good pixelated art style with a nice color palette that matches the time frame it takes place in. This hits somewhere between Stranger Things and Earthbound, with puzzle-solving and character-swapping mechanics. After finishing the game: I have come across a few glaring issues with the game design which I feel are worth pointing out. - You cannot skip cutscenes, even if you had seen them before. - There are no checkpoints, which is further stressed by lack of skippable…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's pretty good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish I could recommend this game, but I just can't. I enjoyed the references and the old school 80s vibe spoke to me. The colours are awesome, the music sublime and the characters memorable and clichéd enough to be just right. The parcouring and plattforming was mostly okay for me and I am very bad at these games. But let me put it this way: At the end of this little trip down nostalgia lane all your dreams and hopes are crushed by the realisations that everyone and everything you hold dear…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game's spirit is fine. Nice graphics, text, story. Childish 80s adventure. Everything is really good there. But the gameplay's design is so broken, that I've abandon it at almost the end. Yeah, they have "hardcore" and it's fine, but saving only on very specific place, with limited life... Well, you can do big pile of platforming, then some serious fight, then a lot of bad designed platforming timing based, and eventually you will die somewhere in a silly way, because you've not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I ran into a game breaking bug in chapter 5 where i can not change characters causing me to be stuck as Big Joe, and since i'm stuck as big Joe i can not jump and progress in the game. Can't recommend until this bug is fixed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved it. The graphics are perfect and the detail is great. So many fun little things to find and characters to talk to. The cut scene animation is just fantastic. Exactly like an old cartoon. The characters, story, gameplay, it's all wonderful. Other than some clipping, slightly unfair platforming and one really stupid puzzle, I don't have anything bad to say about this game. I recommend it 100%. Can't forget the sound either. The sound effects and ESPECIALLY the SOUNDTRACK. Right up my alley…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →clunky, unfinished game, glitchy af. cannot recommend
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you like Stranger Things, you will like this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crossing Souls is an action-adventure game with a strong retro vibe, inspired by the 80s. You play as a group of kids trying to uncover a mysterious government conspiracy, switching between characters with different abilities. The story was quite fun, even if some parts felt a bit over the top. The pixel art and cutscenes were nicely done, and the music fit the overall vibe pretty well. You can get 33 achievements for doing various things like finishing the story, finding collectibles, or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crossing Souls is a jack of all trades but master of none. The art style, especially in the cutscenes, is incredibly nostalgic and beautiful, but the good ends there. I've played quite a few frustrating games and enjoyed them, but all of them had one thing in common—far less clunky controls. It is one thing to create a challenging game. It is another to rely on clunky controls and unresponsive actions to create said difficulty. All of that would be fine enough if you were rewarded with a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I do enjoy a nostagia trip like many others, I'm not going to pretend it's flawless. The difficulty curve is pretty high, some elements aren't really explained too well when it comes to characters and their abilities, and there was a parody of Duck Hunt that I feel aged poorly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love this game, even though the ending was somehow unsatisfying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like a lot of what they were trying to do here. The pixel art is great, the concept behind swapping between playable characters is fun...but this is severely held back by some sloppy level design. This feels like if it had baked a little longer, it could have been magnificent. The story might be more appealing to someone else, but it's heavy on just making references to 80s movies. Kinda like how Family Guy would write jokes that were just vaguely gesturing at some other pop culture thing,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's lame and you get tired for it pretty quickly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played some "lighter" titles like Journey (originally a PS exclusive), Little Nightmares and Crossing Souls. It's really nice to be able to play PC games on the go and (although I've not yet played AAA games on it) am quite pleased with it's performance.
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