The Chosen: Well of Souls
The Chosen: Well Of Souls is an action role-playing game (RPG) in a dark period of the 19th century. The story revolves around 3 characters: Frater Simon, Elena, and Tong Wong (respectively mage, thief, and…
The Chosen: Well of Souls is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Rebelmind, released 5 September 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Chosen: Well of Souls is
The Chosen: Well of Souls is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Rebelmind and released in 2006. It was published by Akella. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The powerful Sorcerer Marcus Dominus Ingens became immortal after unraveling the mystery of the Philosopher’s Stone. His pride and hunger for power made him eliminate all alchemists who's skills and knowledge equaled his. Now he keeps their souls in Golden Tanks and uses them for his evil purposes and controlling infernal forces. Whole armies of demons and devils are at his command. In order to take control over the world, however, he'd have to destroy the God’s Envoy, who resides at the Equilibrium Place -- the eternal throne -- to which every 200 years comes the being who has the great power of doing good. The God’s Envoy is deep meditative state and cannot directly intervene in the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Chosen: Well of Souls holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Chosen: Well of Souls launched on 5 September 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez, LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy.
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