Dark Souls III

2016 · FromSoftware · ~40h to finish

The world is kinder than Dark Souls and the bosses are considerably meaner — almost all of the difficulty has moved into the fog gates.

soulslikeactionrpgPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesSteam DeckMetacritic 89

Global—UNRATED

Baseline difficulty6.2PUNISHING

Sustained pressure. Progress is earned.

Price on Steam

$59.99

USD · United States · checked 1h ago

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Part of

FromSoftware, Demon’s Souls to Nightreign3 of 8 to play

The end of the story that began in Dark Souls, and half of it is callback. It is the one entry here that genuinely loses something if you have not played the first.

Before it: Dark SoulsAfter it: BloodborneStart with Dark Souls or Bloodborne or Elden Ring

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510

Reaction

7.4

Learning Curve

6.6

Obscurity

6.5

Execution

6.1

Punishment

6.0

Grind

4.2

Strategy

3.8

Puzzle

1.4

PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST

Assist options shave roughly 0.6 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS

30% · ~12hReaction
the duel against three swordsmen who are also each other, midway through the first act
▲ 14
60% · ~25hReaction
the mid-game boss that most runs die to more than any other in the game
▲ 33

Assists & accessibility

0/2 SOURCED

MOTOR & INPUT

Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

The last of the trilogy and the fastest: tighter, more linear areas, aggressive multi-phase bosses, and a combat rhythm closer to Bloodborne than to the first game.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

The same shape with the volume down, for when that one took it out of you.

Dead Cells

2018 · Motion Twin · ~40h

5.2STEEP

Runs are fast and deaths are total. Boss cells stack modifiers until a loadout that felt comfortable dies to two hits, and there is no difficulty setting hiding under them.

UnratedREA 5.8EXE 5.3CRV 5.5

PUZ 1.5REA 5.8 — you asked for demandingSTR 4.5 — you asked for forgiving

Code Vein

2019 · Bandai Namco Studios · ~35h

5.2STEEP

The gentlest soulslike on the shelf, largely because the AI companion it gives you will happily solo a boss you cannot beat.

UnratedREA 5.8EXE 5.5PUN 5.5

PUZ 1.5

Remnant: From the Ashes

2019 · Gunfire Games · ~20h

5.2STEEP

Souls stamina and checkpoints with a gun in your hands, so the dodge is still the answer but the aim decides whether the dodge was needed.

UnratedREA 5.7CRV 5.5PUN 5.3

The same shape with the volume down, for when that one took it out of you.

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