{
  "id": 13961611,
  "title": "Valor Mortis review - this Napoleonic first-person swordfighter is one of the freshest Soulslikes in years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/valor-mortis-review-this-napoleonic-first-person-swordfighter-is-one",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-12T13:00:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valor-mortis-review"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Well, I say \"freshest.\" In its ickily up-close vision of Napoleonic battlefields, swapping the boring old bubonic plague for a fleshy, pustulating necro-blight, Valor Mortis is as horrid and grim as a standard Soulslike rulebook would compel. At the same time, One More Level’s first-person take on campfires and attack-pattern combat does feel like a game striking out on its own, and not just…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
        "title": "This week in PC games: play a human-eating Katamari from outer space, take over a nature reserve in Planet Zoo 2, and battle Napoleonic body horror in Valor Mortis",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/this-week-in-pc-games-play-a-human-eating-katamari-from-outer-space",
        "published": "2026-10-12T12:31:47.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}