A marble rolls through spikes and boss fights in this soulslike platformer
Dark Roll 2 turns a glowing orb loose in fields of spikes and lava shrines, and the screenshots suggest the rolling is the whole fight.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The hero of Dark Roll 2 is a ball. Not a knight with a ball for a head, not a ball with a sword bolted on, just a sphere, sat on a cracked stone plinth with runes burned into its surface like it has been carved out of a bad dream. Artbarian Games calls this a soulslike marble platformer, and looking at the screenshots that reads less like a marketing mash-up and more like an honest description. There is a heart icon and a health bar top left in every shot, there is a gem counter next to it, and in one image there is a stopwatch and a star rating sitting where a minimap would usually go. Tha...