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Selfloss (2024) is a narrative adventure game about a kind old healer in search of a ritual to cure his wounded soul. You explore the land using the light of your staff to defeat mythical creatures and help those you meet. It's unusual because of its basis in ancient Russian and Icelandic myths and your mission that combines compassion and cost to heal your own sick soul.

Your adventure starts as you hear the cry of an animal and go to help it. Play involves exploration and interaction with the world punctuated with combat. In the fights you control both the old man and his staff independently: you can call it back to your hand or let it levitate ahead of you generating spells.

As you progress you gain more abilities and learn new ways to use your staff to solve puzzles and remove the stain of the Miasma from the world. You find boats that let you move between islands and explore deeper into the world. As you do, you discover Slavic and Icelandic myths that encourage you to help others overcome their hardships and grief.

The result is a haunting game visually and audibly. It's an unusual slow look at what we must pay to help those in need. The name, Selfoss, comes from a town in southern Iceland on the banks of the Ölfusá river. It seems to serve as both inspiration for the setting and theme of the game.

Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Selfloss 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.
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Play StylePlay Style

This is an Adventure and Narrative game with Brain Game, Puzzle and Traversal elements. This is a single-player game.

 
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DurationDuration

Play Time: This game will take between 4 and a half hours and 5 hours to complete.

Age RatingsAge Ratings

Content Rating

Rated PEGI 12 for Horror. This game features some disturbing images. Several whale corpses are seen throughout the game. Large amounts of blood are visible both on the whales' bodies and floating in the water around them. At one point in the game, a whale is seen impaled on a pointy rock and large amounts of blood are seen dripping from the wound. In the opening sections of the game the playable character is seen to have attempted to take their own life. In-game text alludes to this suicide attempt. Later in the game, the user sees a noose in a dream, which the player will walk up to and then interact with. However, images are not shown of the player putting the noose around their neck.

CostsCosts

Selfloss usually costs £19.99 to £24.99. 

Selfloss

XBox Store Xbox X|S £24.99
XBox Store PC £24.99
Switch StoreSALE Switch £24.99 £12.49 until 26/02/2025
Steam Store PC £19.99
PlayStation Store PS5 £24.99
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.

DetailsGame Details

Release Date: 05/09/2024

Price: 50% Off

Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox X|S

Players: 1

Genres: Adventure, Narrative (Brain Game, Puzzle and Traversal)

Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Developer: Alex Goodwin Dev (@AlexGoodwinDev)


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