Every so often a game pitch is so bold it makes you scramble for the Steam wishlist button — today that was the concept of Spore mashed with Dark Souls.
Strange Seed takes clear inspiration from Spore’s creature-building, but it drops the interstellar scope in favour of a more focused, Darwinian playground. You start as a simple blob; defeat creatures, unlock new parts, and attach them to your round body. Need flight, claws, or fungal growths? Slot them on and see what they do.
Another selling point is the presence of “ferocious, Soulslike bosses” — encounters that demand more than twitch reactions. The right parts can turn a losing matchup into a win, and with so many permutations there’s ample scope to discover clever, unexpected builds — or, as the devs admit, ways to “cheese” fights into submission.
On Reddit, the developers cautioned that your biggest threat might simply be poor design choices, and described Strange Seed as a hybrid — part Spore, part EVO: Search for Eden, with a dash of Dark Souls.
The Soulslike comparison may raise eyebrows, but here it seems to refer to how you iterate on and rebuild your weird creature to meet challenges. Need to cross a lava pit? Attach wings. Facing a burrowing menace? Maybe claws and a sturdy carapace will do the trick.
Strange Seed is available now on Steam.
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Source: gamesradar.com
