Soulless Vessel – Co-Op Dungeon Crawler
Soulless Vessel is a new cooperative Dungeon Crawler for one to five players that adds a unique twist to this genre by putting an emphasis on tactical combat and an insane level of freeform deckbuilding.
In Soulless Vessel, the players assume the roles of ancient heroes, who’s souls have returned to fight an age-old evil once more – the Neverwake dragon! To do this, they must take possession of a willing or soulless (but still living) body to be used as their vessel.
Every vessel comes with its unique perks, and a hero may leave one vessel behind to inhabit another, but as you adventure with the same vessel you’ll unlock even more of its potential.
In addition to the vessels, your power and playstyle are determined by items and your deck of hand cards. You can use one of the thematic starter decks (like Vanguard, Necromancer or Marksman) or build your own! After each adventure, you can acquire and upgrade both your cards and equipment.
In each adventure, you will have a clear objective and will discover a procedurally generated dungeon or area. Enemies will act according to simple AI-cards that determine their behavior and abilities each round, so combat will require you to coordinate with your party, and positioning and choosing the right abilities are key to victory.
The following aspects make Soulless Vessel stand out against comparable Dungeon Crawlers like Gloomhaven, Descent or Shadows Of Brimstone:
- Millions of character combinations possible! Make your own build by drawing from a vast amount of unique ability cards, items and vessels.
- Lots of options to adjust difficulty to your liking, more than just another "+1 damage" to enemies.
- Beautiful standee-artworks for all heroes, minions and enemies. You won’t stare at grey, unpainted miniatures.
- Entirely for free and 100% officially supported. This game is available to you entirely for free and we will keep pushing updates to it, like new content & balancing updates. A physical boxed copy may appear at a later point in time.
- A grimdark, more "Sword & Sorcery" inspired world with familiar and relatable themes from traditional fantasy settings.
Our development and release plan may be different from other board games. Soulless Vessel is available as an "Early Access". You will be able to enjoy the entirety of the first three chapters of the campaign (out of five), including all the base content (over 300 ability cards, over 150 items, over 30 vessels and more).
We will release the other chapters over the next few months, expecting to be able to release a new chapter every one or two months! The campaign will be complete once we have released five chapters in total, but we won’t stop there. We have tons of ideas for expansion campaigns, standalone adventures and other content.
We develop the game in this fashion so that we can involve you – our community – in the process to help steer the balancing and content, while also giving you the opportunity to support us on our Patreon to help fund the needed game art.
While you can find all PDF files within the mod, some of you may prefer to have these eBooks open in your browser. Below you will find all links to our PDFs.
We will regularly update the mod whenever we see fit. This will typically involve fixing typos or adjusting the balancing of enemies, vessels, items or ability cards.
Chapter 3 has arrived!
TTS isn’t really made to update ongoing campaign games, unfortunately. If you already had a campaign, please deactivate mod-caching in your settings. Then load a fresh table of Soulless Vessel and manually re-create the state of your game (vessels, ability cards, items).
Important: After you have fully loaded in (the downloads are done), go to your settings and re-enable "Mod Caching" again, as otherwise some scripts will not work properly (like the dice roller)!
You believe you created the best character build in Soulless Vessel? Or you’d like to have a look at all cards and plan your future progression for your ongoing campaign?
We got you covered! One of our team members, Dash, developed a standalone deck builder tool. Plan your decks and even share them as a simple link with your fellow players.
[deckbuilder.soulless-vessel.com]
If you want to see some behind-the-scenes updates and support us, please consider subscribing to our Patreon. We use all the funding to pay our Artists. More subscribers means we can afford more art, faster.
[www.patreon.com]
Please consider joining our Discord server to stay in touch with the rest of our community and to see the latest updates (like the release of a new chapter).
[discord.gg]
We released the first free, optional DLC. The "Alternative Standee" box contains variants of existing vessel standees, giving you more options to express yourself!
Check out the mod here.
Our second, free and optional DLC is all about item crafting. After playing a bonus adventure you unlock a legendary blacksmith for your town phases with the ability to make custom armor and weapons.
Check out the mod here.
Workshop Credits:
- We are using Stixx’s Dice Tray asset
