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1998PlayStation

You climb a grim first-person tower full of monsters and winding floors, where every fight with heavy weapons demands patience. Often seen as a precursor to the Souls series, it rewards you for feeling your way through its mapless corridors with hard-won discoveries.

  • Interconnected level design
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Melee combat with weapons or fists
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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King's Field

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1995USK 12PlayStation

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An early real-time first-person dungeon crawler widely seen as a forerunner of the Souls games. Slow, deliberate combat, a cryptic world and a lonely atmosphere make for a grim, unforgiving journey of discovery.

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King's Field II

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King's Field II is an early first-person dungeon RPG on the PlayStation where you roam sprawling, winding labyrinths as Prince Lyle. You fight grim monsters in real time with melee weapons and uncover many secrets, a forerunner of the Souls games.

King's Field: The Ancient City

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You explore a twisting, gloomy first-person labyrinth full of dangers and secrets as a knight. Its appeal lies in the dense atmosphere and the demanding, slowly learned melee combat.

Lunacid

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Lunacid is a first-person dungeon crawler in the spirit of King's Field and Shadow Tower, set in a dark, interconnected world full of secrets. Its deliberately crude retro look, free exploration and varied weapons and spells create an eerie, nostalgic atmosphere.

Dark Souls: Remastered

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The genre-defining Soulslike: a bleak, intricately interconnected world of punishing combat, hidden paths and bosses that demand patience and precise timing. The remaster adds sharper visuals and includes the Artorias of the Abyss expansion.

Blade of Darkness

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A punishing fantasy action game with weighty, combo-based melee combat and four playable heroes, often seen as an early forerunner of Soulslike games. You carve a gory path through grim levels to stop the forces of Chaos.

Thymesia

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A fast, punishing soulslike where you play plague doctor Corvus, relying on precise parries and dodges and on the disease powers of plundered weapons. Combat rewards aggression over turtling, set in a grim, decaying kingdom.

Dark Souls

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A merciless action RPG whose interconnected world of Lordran rewards careful exploration with clever shortcuts, deliberate combat and cryptic, melancholic lore. Every death teaches something, and every victory feels truly earned.

Lords of the Fallen

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A grim Soulslike where a magic lantern lets you shift between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead. Weighty combat, interconnected level design and the Umbral mechanic make exploration tense and demanding.

Queen's Domain

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A retro-styled fantasy action RPG with punishing combat and exploration built around traversal. You search the mysterious Isle of Neasied for your missing father and uncover the secrets of the stirring Queen.

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