{"id":380853,"date":"2026-10-14T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=380853"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:48:16","slug":"valor-mortis-is-out-now-on-game-pass-a-soulslike-against-napoleons-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/valor-mortis-is-out-now-on-game-pass-a-soulslike-against-napoleons-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Valor Mortis is out now on Game Pass: a Soulslike against Napoleon\u2019s army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valor Mortis<\/a> came out on October 13, 2026<\/strong> for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It drops first-person Soulslike combat into a dark fantasy version of the Napoleonic wars. You play as William, a resurrected soldier fighting through a plague-twisted army under Napoleon, using melee weapons, firearms, and supernatural powers. That mix alone gives the game its own identity.<\/p>\n\n

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The first reaction points to the kind of game that could build a cult following. Steam<\/a> user reviews sit at “Very Positive.”<\/strong> Critics have been less consistent, though. They\u2019ve praised the ambition, the setting, and a lot of the combat ideas, but they\u2019ve also called out bugs, performance issues, uneven design, an undercooked story, and a few difficulty spikes that sound more irritating than rewarding.<\/p>\n

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At launch, the game was priced at $39.99<\/strong>. It also hit Xbox Game Pass<\/a> on day one. On Steam, it reached a 24-hour peak of 4,647 players, and the developers already have a story-focused DLC lined up for 2027.<\/p>\n\n

If you can live with some rough edges<\/strong>, there\u2019s enough here to make it worth your time, especially if you\u2019ve been waiting for an action RPG that doesn\u2019t feel like the usual medieval retread. You can download Valor Mortis now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, or just jump in through Xbox Game Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Valor Mortis came out on October 13, 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It drops first-person Soulslike combat into a dark fantasy version of the Napoleonic wars. You play as William, a resurrected soldier fighting through a plague-twisted army under Napoleon, using melee weapons, firearms, and supernatural powers. That mix alone gives … Continue reading “Valor Mortis is out now on Game Pass: a Soulslike against Napoleon\u2019s army”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":380852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-380853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380864,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380853\/revisions\/380864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380853"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=380853"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=380853"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=380853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}