# 2025’s Best Soulslike You Missed Is Officially a Sleeper Hit on Xbox Game Pass

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/2025s-best-soulslike-you-missed-is-officially-a-sleeper-hit-on-xbox-game-pass/
- Published: 2026-08-08T00:00:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-08T04:22:24+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/hell-is-us-game-pass-hit/
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Gaming

## Key points

- Hell Is Us has become a Game Pass sleeper hit.
- It has reached one million players.
- Its exploration-focused Soulslike design divides critics.

## Summary

Hell Is Us, a semi-open-world action adventure game from Rogue Factor, has become a sleeper hit after joining Xbox Game Pass in July. Released in September 2025 amid the attention surrounding Hollow Knight: Silksong, it initially struggled for visibility, but is now the service’s third most-popular game and has reached one million players.

The game follows a peacekeeper returning to his war-torn homeland to find his parents, only to encounter supernatural threats. It combines Soulslike combat with an intentionally minimal interface that omits maps and quest markers, encouraging exploration; reviews were mixed overall, with a Metacritic score of 77 from 60 reviews. Hell Is Us is available for Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and PC, with a Nintendo Switch 2 release planned for 8 October.

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