SOULS

What the game is

HABBY, better known for arcade-style hits, goes slower here. SOULS is a hero-collecting RPG where fights happen on a tile grid and where you place each character matters as much as who you've levelled. The backdrop is a continent that has split apart and sunk into darkness, and your squad is the thing pushing the dark back.

More than 60 heroes are available, each with distinct skills and a personality of their own. The art style is the studio's stated selling point, and the map rewards detours with hidden extras.

How a session plays

Before a battle you arrange your heroes on the grid, thinking about who should absorb damage up front and who needs line of sight from the back. Then the fight resolves and you learn whether the formation held. Different enemy types punish different layouts, so the same six heroes get rearranged constantly.

Between fights you recruit, upgrade and wander the map looking for the surprises the description hints at. It's an unhurried loop that suits short sessions, since each battle is self-contained and the preparation is where the thinking happens.

Why people look for it

HABBY's name carries weight after Archero and Survivor.io, so part of the interest is simply seeing the studio attempt a tactics game. The other part is the art, which the listing leans on heavily. Players who like squad-building and formation puzzles but find most mobile tactics games ugly or grindy are the obvious audience.

Look and feel

Expect painted, high-detail character art against a gloomy fractured landscape, with the battle grid overlaid cleanly so positions are readable at a glance. Hero portraits and skill icons will dominate the menus. The page shows five screenshots, which ought to cover both the grid battles and the hero roster screens.

Updates and upkeep

A 4.6 rating from over 10,000 ratings is solid for a strategy RPG, a genre where balance complaints often drag scores down. HABBY PTE. LTD. is a large publisher with several live games, which generally means ongoing support. Only an App Store link is on our page, so the Android version can't be vouched for from this data.

Good for

• Formation puzzlers

  Positioning on the grid decides fights, so people who like rearranging a squad will stay engaged.

• Roster builders

  Sixty-plus heroes with distinct skills give collectors a long checklist.

• Fans of HABBY's art

  The painted style is the studio's own headline feature.

Before you install

Rated 9+ and free to download. The listing doesn't list in-app purchases, but a 60-hero collecting RPG from a major publisher almost certainly sells currency or summons, so budget accordingly. Whether an account or a constant connection is required isn't stated.

Ad presence, storage size and regional limits are also absent from the data, and the Play Store isn't linked here.