Mortal Shell is an action role-playing game developed by Cold Symmetry and published by Playstack, released on August 18, 2020 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with a PlayStation 5 version arriving later. It was the studio’s debut, and it wears its debts openly: punishing combat, hidden paths, and a world that offers no comfort to the curious.

Players take up the shells of fallen warriors, each with its own weight, weapons, and temperament, and harden their flesh to stone in place of a shield. The game is remembered for that hardening mechanic, for its brief but dense campaign, and for the quiet dread of its crumbling shrines and hollowed faithful.