Valor Mortis Opens At 78 On Metacritic, Critics Split On Boss Quality
The reviews and the spread of scores put the genre's core tension on display: critics credit the first-person combat and the Ghostrunner-style level design, and fault the boss fights and story, which is exactly the split that keeps the game at a mid-70s score rather than at the top of the genre.
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Valor Mortis, the first-person soulslike from Ghostrunner developer One More Level, released October 14, 2026 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5, and its review scores have landed at a 78 Metascore on PC across 53 reviews and 79 on PS5 across 16. Critics agree on the combat and disagree on bosses, story, and technical polish, with scores running from 88 at LevelUp down to 60 at GameSpot.
The platform split is narrow: 78 on PC and 79 on PS5, a difference of one point. The price is $40, which Game Rant argued works in the player's favor given the quality of the combat. One More Level, the studio behind Ghostrunner, is credited with carrying that game's level design into the soulslike format, and Saudi Gamer called the level design excellent and strongly Ghostrunner-influenced. What separates the high scores from the low ones is the same set of questions: whether the boss fights match the combat, whether the story earns its place, and whether the technical roughness is forgivable.
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