Dolmen Review - The Final Verdict

Dolmen does a respectable job of recreating most of the core elements that have carried the Souls genre to - and kept it in - its current prominence, and if you’re a hardcore Souls fan then perhaps that’s enough for you, but given its lack of polish, and just a general disinterest in meaningfully iterating on hardly any of its many borrowed ideas, it’s a bit of a tough sell to anyone outside of the most dedicated Souls players.

Not having enough of your own ideas and failing to execute some of the borrowed ones isn’t a good mix. That said, what is here is a mostly functional recreation of the core Souls elements through a dark sci-fi lens that you don’t see every day. Plus, the genuinely cool looking environments and more straightforward story could certainly result in a good time for fans of sci-fi and souls-likes that don’t mind a moderate amount of jank and dullness here and there.