Its fine. I would be disappointed if it i paid $20, but I got it on sale for $9.99.

Ember Souls offers a campaign, sandbox and raid mode. Raids are procedurally generated maps that you can speedrun. In sandbox mode you can test the combat. Campaign is a six hour long adventure with a bit of story - you are Kasim, the last immortal who is meant to gather all Ember stones, embrace their power and beat the Shadow Sultan.

Primary gameplay is parkour. The player can climb, wall run, jump, swing between poles or slide down tapestries. You can view the palace rooms as puzzles the player needs to navigate using parkour-style movement. Unfortunately there is one set path so there is not much freedom of movement. It starts with tutorial-like areas but the deeper we get, the harder is to navigate the rooms.

Ember stones we collect give us two abilities that can be used both in combat and our platforming adventure. The first abilities we get is air push that can destroy items or hit enemies. The second ability doubles as a grappling hook. Using the Water stone we can freeze water, Fire stone can help us burn stuff and Earth stone will gives us the power to produce our own vines that we can scale.

The palace is guarded and we need to beat the enemies in order to advance. Combat system is a simple hack'n'slash. While Ember stone abilities can make it more interesting, there is mostly no need to use special abilities or different weapons which leaves us with boring repetitive combat. Boss battles require you to do something specific but the combat is not fully functional so it can become very frustrating or boring to beat the boss.

Enemies leave behind coins which can be used to buy new weapons/armor. The weapons don't do anything interesting and feel not worth the money.

Ember Souls's atmosphere and visuals are beautiful. Soundtrack and sound design are very nice too. The voice acting though is not good and can break the immersion.

Don't forget to pet the bird, he purrs.

You may think it's a prince of Persia game but it is more of a bad version of Behemoth and Assassin's Creed with some Spiderman notes.
The story seems interesting but quite ordinary and not that deep. The graphics are basic and the areas are all the same.
The parkour part is not accurate and has many glitches. The fighting system is chunky but there are cool animations and physics while stabbing and pushing. The NPCs, the bosses are a joke, even in hard mode. The puzzles are too simple.
The magic part is good but not much diversity for the game progression (you use primarily the air swinging technique). The weapons are not that interesting (no damage difference and only one has a unique special ability other than stronger hits).
Having sufficient coins is difficult and you finish the game without all the abilities upgrades. I guess you can use the sandbox and the raids modes but, surprise, it gets too laggy and unplayable after a while.
All in all, I enjoyed playing the game but I wouldn't really recommend it. Not at full price at least.

I don't think I have a more gorgeous game in my library. I'm using a Quest 2 so the graphics are not the "best" due to hardware restrictions and it's still spectacular! I get motion sick with walking games and this doesn't affect me. Love, love, LOVE it! I have to stop playing for now since my old Q2 controller has a drifting stick so when I swing the sword, I end up snapping my back to the enemy. I will definitely pick this up on a different device. :)

I tried my best to love this game. I forced myself to keep playing, hoping to find something engaging — but it was all in vain.

The paradox of this game is that you can see its huge potential, but within the first 15 minutes, it already feels boring. It has a beautiful atmosphere, but no real immersion. There’s a variety of mechanics, but there are too many of them, and most don’t work properly. The combat is decent in theory, but incredibly dull. There’s parkour, but it gets old after five minutes. There are puzzles, but they just make you yawn.

It’s like the game has everything it needs to be good, but everything feels half-baked.

Overall: a major disappointment. Prince of Persia on the Apple II and NES is far more enjoyable (and I’m not exaggerating).

Fun game but needs work.
Mechanics are clunky at times which ruins the flow of gameplay.
Very frustrating.
Not a value for 25 bucks.
Maybe 15 dollars.