Those shells - the bodies that you inhabit and control - act as classes. Instead, over the course of the first couple hours, you find four titular “shells.” You don’t level up, control an array of stats, nor do you choose a class. Mortal Shell is somehow an action RPG (like any soulslike game) with very few RPG elements. In Fallgrim Tower, further visions give me more clues about the locations of three more bodies in the area - other shells for my character to inhabit - and three more weapons to find.
That goal is very vague, but it’s video game logic: the journey exists to justify the game more than to satisfy a story arc. I meet Sester Genessa, an enigmatic guide, who will help me with my goal of escaping this place. I find the landmarks and follow that vision to a place called Fallgrim Tower that will become my base of operations. When I reach the first branch in the path, I’m given a vision - glimpses of a goal. I start walking through a generic, hallway-like swamp that leads me forward toward … something.
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