Somber Echoes. Bad twin sis

Somber Echoes is a new Action adventure platformer game developed by ‘Rock Pocket games‘ and published by ‘Bonus stage publishing’. Somber Echoes us said to be coming out the 8th of July 2025 on the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 but already out on PC. X35 Earthwalker sees the action in this game but what about the story. Somber Echoes needs to make itself stand out from others for real. Let’s take a look.

Somber Echoes has been described as being “rooted in ancient greek mythologies.” The whole mission is to stop your twin sister from basically destroying the universe. Now no challenge like this is straightforward. Expect battles, foes and obstacles. So much so that Somber Echoes has also been described as a metroidvania. So seasoned players know what to expect here.

Now this “greco-roman” place use to be beautiful but now ruined and destruction is on the way. Off course a place like this has stories and as you play Somber Echoes, expect mysteries and things to discover and uncover. Maybe things aren’t as straight forward as they seem. What if? Your sister wasn’t trying to destroy the universe. Maybe. Just throwing it out there. Regardless there’s things to think about and get done.

A so called cataclysmic event caused this place to become the horror field that it is. These threats aren’t from your dimension. Now obviously when dealing with different dimensions, you normally have to contend with forces from said dimensions. Well in Somber Echoes, that’s happening as well. A “mysterious force” chooses to show up and do its own thing. Even awakening Adrestia. Oh boy. 

We checked out some Somber Echoes gameplay and it’s almost what we expected. The combat has more freedom and emphasis on aerial and being straight mobile action. Your character is agile, mobile and quite acrobatic. This off course is different from other games of this genre. We like how the game looks. Gameplay is very smooth, animations are excellent, The graphics and graphic style of the game is very good too. The enemies though are the weakest aspect of Somber Echoes right now. We aren’t feeling them, nor do they intimidate. The bosses we can’t take seriously right now.

Overall Somber Echoes looks like a very good game. There’s multiple biomes and even multiple endings as well. Sio replayability just might be there. Stories like this are straight forward for X35 Earthwalker but players will get quite a bit for them to solve and figure out. We just hope that better enemies show up later in the game. The developers ‘Rock Pocket games’ have done a very good job so far. We at X35 Earthwalker will just have to hear what Somber Echoes brings to the screens. Now Somber Echoes may have a dangerous twin sister but she too weak for… the ‘Earth Walk!’