Soul Cauldron
Ákos Hornung · 2025 · Roguelite, Top-Down Shooter, Dungeon Crawler, Bullet Hell, Hack and Slash
PC
3 user reviews67% · 3
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About Soul Cauldron
Create a coven of witches, defeat the great Blight and harvest its soul. Soul Cauldron is a Min-Maxing dungeon runner set in a dying world, where covens of powerful witches vie for power as everything around them is slowly consumed by the enigmatic Blight.Min-Maxing Challenge: Different builds for every occasionUnlike traditional RPG-s where you build your character in a certain way throughout the playthrough, in Soul Cauldron each dungeon will have highly different challenges that no single build will be good against. The build that you used to easily run the previous Dungeon will have you killed on arrival in the next one.Instead, you completely reequip your character with items and spells that suit the specific challenge.Divine your future to surviveSince you need to equip for each new challenge, knowing what to expect is the difference between life or death. Your witches will painstakingly divine information about dungeons to reveal enemy strengths, weaknesses, notable items, and how will breaching the dungeon further empower the Blight. Powerful witches can even unlock powerful bonus effects to help you survive the dungeon.Decisions, DecisionsMaybe you divine the presence of the recipe for a potion of Celestial Mending in a pit full of Fire Demons. Will you risk entering when you're missing a good fire resistant armor? You could use that potion to survive the venom attacks of the creatures in the Dark Bog. If you could survive that Bog, its guardian holds the Astral Spellblade you need to complete your Fiend slaying item set.How many souls can you collect to fuel your cauldron?On the battered continent of Ique, the only true currency is souls. Venture out into the wilderness, fight monsters, craft spells, brew potions and utilize almost infinite combos from six schools of magic to build your coven!Collect your Sisters, slay the avatar of the Blight and claim it's soul so you may found the greatest coven to ever exist!
- Fight your way through dungeons, swamps and ruins infested by pirate gangs, cults, demons, undead, arcane entities and other horrors; and harvest their souls to increase your power.
- Discover recipes for powerful spells, potions and runes to craft.
- Semi-procedural itemization will give you unending tools and combinations to accomplish your goal, but beware: you will face greater and more powerful enemies along the way!
- Use your powers of divination to gather information on dungeons before you enter, and outfit your witch with great care so she may have a chance at survival.
- Find your lost sisters and save them from the clutches of the enemy so they can join your cause!
- Use over 500 unique, craftable spells and elevate your coven over all others.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A top down twin stick RPG with elements and base management. This game feels like it was incredibly rushed and unpolished. The tutorial tell you everything but teaches you nothing about the mechanics of the game. It throws it all at you after a short story beat before you even play the game while the player knows nothing about what is going on. A slower and more drawn out tutorial over multiple runs would have been better with the current one being a toggleable overlay to have when needed. The generation of the maps feels sporadic and thrown together, like there wasn't much thought put into the random generator. The assets are mixed with different art styles for everything from the background and level assets, enemies, spell effects and to the art making it all feel out of place. The obvious use of AI exacerbates this problem. Everything feels weightless. There is not feedback from ANYTHING, lacking both proper audio and visual elements. There is no indication from landing hits or being hit besides the damage indicator or the loss of health respectively. Traps just show up at your feet. At first being confused if it was dangerous or not until I stood in it to test it. The con…3 found this helpful
Soul Cauldron is a dark fantasy roguelite RPG developed by Ákos Hornung and published by Harmony Lab that places strategic planning at the center of its design. While many role-playing games reward players for creating a single powerful character and refining that build throughout the entire adventure, Soul Cauldron takes a different approach. It constantly encourages adaptation, experimentation, and preparation, transforming every expedition into a tactical challenge where understanding the enemy is often just as important as possessing powerful equipment. This philosophy gives the game a unique identity within the crowded dungeon-crawling genre. The story unfolds in the troubled realm of Ique, a land threatened by a mysterious corruption known as the Blight. As darkness spreads across the world, powerful covens compete for influence and survival while seeking the strength necessary to confront the source of the catastrophe. Players assume command of their own coven of witches, gathering souls, exploring dangerous territories, and gradually building enough power to challenge the forces responsible for the world's decline. Although the narrative primarily serves as a backdrop for …
great game hidden gem 6 years off work it s diablo game with loot 300 mixed spells great game must have
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