I was searching Youtube and saw a new game called "Lies of P" that sounded neat. Turns out it was a Dark Souls-esque game. Normally I'd have just made a thread to discuss it, but I realized something - there's a whole dang lot of these games now. So I figure this thread can be here to isolate commonalities between games like this and discuss all of them in general. examples Demon's Souls (prototype Dark Souls) Dark Souls 2 (Dark Souls but you forgot about it) Dark Souls 3 (Dark Souls but it's all about the memes) Bloodborne (Dark Souls with guns and Gothic Horror) Sekiro Shadows Die Twice (Dark Souls but you're a ninja) The Surge (Dark Souls but post-apocalyptic sci-fi) Jedi Fallen Order (Dark Souls but Star Wars) Crash Bandicoot (Dark Souls but with a bandicoot) Dead Cells, Hyper Light Drifter, Eldest Souls, Salt and Sanctuary (Dark Souls but 2D) Nioh (Dark Souls but you're a samurai) Elden Ring (Dark Souls if it were written by George R.R Martin) Hellpoint Lords of the Fallen Mortal Shell (Dark Souls but the DM has premade character sheets for you) Code Vein (Dark Souls but anime) Stranger of Paradise (Dark Souls but with Final Fantasy lore) Lies of P (Dark Souls but Pinnochio) Hollow Knight (Dark Souls by way of bugs) Immortal Unchained (Dark Souls but it's a 3rd Person Shooter) Sinner Sacrifice For Redemption (Dark Souls but its a Boss Game) Little Witch Nobeta (Dark Souls meets Little Witch Academia) Let It Die (Dark Souls if Suda 51 directed) Momodora summary Blasphemous summary If there's any other traits to these games, or anything wrong here, feel free to add. Participants are currently working on a list of basic requirements for a "Souls-like" title. Follow along here There is a workpage for Souls-like RPG's Edited by FOFD on Dec 25th 2022 at 10:01:41 AM
Ah, good!