Five years before developer studio Sloclap made strategic story sparring socially acceptable with Sifu, they dipped their martial arts toe into the pond of Dark Souls-style gameplay with Absolver. However, as is usually the case with first-party games, the game was only granted a rating just above average. A fate that user HarperNguyen aptly predicted in the YouTube video on the various combat techniques with the words "This game is gonna be painfully underrated".