This feels like a well made love letter to more retro horrors like Resident Evil and Silent Hill and I loved it. Fixed camera angles, OPTIONAL tank controls, collect the limited recording tapes to save, puzzles and a need for good resource management.

Positives:

+ Tormented Souls excels heavily in the atmosphere that it sets! The colour palette, the settings and the lighting really set the game up as an atmospheric horror. Loved the setting and designs of the rooms
+ Great Sound design! The music is so eerie and other sounds make the game feel very immersive.
+ Smooth, satisfying game play.
+ Good puzzles! They give you everything you need to work them out and don't leave anything too vague or down to guess work.
+ The story is pretty good, though a little predictable
+ Ammo isn't unfairly scarce. You can afford to kill quite a few enemies safely without your ammo reserves running dry. You will probably struggle if you try to kill literally everything in your path though so play smart and use a crowbar when safe (when they're snoozing)
+ Dodge mechanic gives you i-frames
+ Has auto-aim which is a huge help with fixed camera angles
+ Cool and creepy enemy designs

Neutral:

* The game is hard. This can be a positive if you like a challenge, or a negative if you don't. I personally found it fun for the most part.

Negatives:

- It can feel genuinely unfair at times. If you run out of a door where the enemy was trying to hit you close to the door, you can walk in there again and it'll still be in the attacking animation and hit you.

I did not enjoy playing this game.
Game has these quirks that if you try can slow down the game to about 15% speed (everything, even transitions from menus) and can't be fixed in-game and you need to restart the whole thing. It would not be a huge issue if the save system wasn't as bad as it can be. You have a limited number of saves and can only save in specific spots.
There is no difficulty for neither combat, nor puzzles. All of the inspiration for the story, setting and gameplay is taken straight from Silent Hill and Resident evil and yet they do not implement this feature that was available even on the PS1...
I got soft locked when turning on the generator - it went green, you can hear it working, got the achievement and yet everything was still dark and the doors still required power.... amazing.

The story is nothing to write home about. Silent Hill 3 (cult, sacrifice and God) + a bit of Resident evil (mostly the setting) + Fatal Frame (twins where one haunts the other) + time travel. The time travel especially has plot holes as time is a constant and also you can change it somehow - so it is both constant and not. The story utilizes either one depending on the mood it seems. Radiation doesn't affect the main character somehow even though the story emphasises otherwise. Also there are 3 endings. The most annoying thing is that all of the most important parts of the story are placed in logs and diaries. This kills all immersion once you have to stop, pause and read 7 pages of notes to get a bit of info. Given that the voice acting was awful I don't know what to say how they would have fixed this, especially considering the static models during dialogue.

The sound design and the graphics are good, but there is little to no variety with the basic enemy designes.
Gameplay-wise this is going to become boring very quickly. Same enemies, one setting - the mansion and a LOT of backtracking. This game is puzzle heavy and feels more like a puzzle game, but man can the backtracking and trying to figure out which of the hints is related to which of those puzzles be annoying. The game also relies on out-of-game knowledge to complete certain puzzles which is dumb if you consider not everyone who plays this is a Christian or uses the same calendar...

Overall I was insanely dissapointed with this game

This is the worst survival horror game I have ever played.
Also, if you save before the TV puzzle and die, your save is now useless because the power is out for some reason and you're now stuck.
♥♥♥♥ this game.