Most played brutal soulslike games
Blood on the blade is the common thread across these most played brutal soulslike games, where you trade blows up close and pay for mistimed guards. Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition tests your deflection against fast swordsmen, Lies of P sends you through a ruined city with paired weapons to adjust, and Blasphemous drags you through cursed shrines where every boss demands patience and pattern study.
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Phantom Blade Zero
Soul has sixty-six days to live and a murdered master on his record. Phantom Blade Zero gives you fast wuxia swordplay through a rain-soaked Wulin, with dodges, deflections and counters that decide fights in an instant. Flashy, cinematic and story-heavy, it suits soulslike fans more for bosses and atmosphere than for punishment.
94% of 114,014 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41,025$59.99ELDEN RING
Rise as the Tarnished in the Lands Between, learn brutal bosses pattern by pattern, and earn the Elden Ring. Open fields, huge dungeons, flexible builds and co-op help soulslike fans shape their own punishing road to becoming Elden Lord.
93% of 835,869 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20,654$59.99ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
A standalone Elden Ring adventure rebuilt as a co-op roguelike about surviving two nights in Limveld and killing a Nightlord. Pick one of eight Nightfarers, loot fast, plan routes, fight bosses that punish sloppy rolls, and do it again with friends. Brutal, fast and built for soulslike fans.
83% of 130,590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19,229$39.99Path of Exile 2
Path of Exile 2 is a dark action RPG with a six-act campaign, over a hundred bosses, and combat that punishes sloppy positioning and careless builds. Bosses each have mechanics to learn through repeated tries, which should feel familiar to soulslike fans.
76% of 169,362 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14,703Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is FromSoftware's fast, punishing take on soulslikes, set in brutal Sengoku Japan. As the one-armed wolf, you guard a young lord, lose him, and cut your way back through the Ashina clan with a katana, stealth, and deadly prosthetic tools. Deflect, break posture, and land the killing blow.
95% of 262,153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,797$59.99Dead Cells
Dead Cells is a 2D action-platformer with souls-lite combat and no checkpoints: kill, die, learn, repeat. You possess a new corpse each run and fight through an ever-changing castle with tough but fair foes, a panic roll for close calls, and progress that carries over into the next attempt.
97% of 157,576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,879$24.99Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
Expect stance-switching duels, tense one-hit mistakes, and a beautiful open island built for samurai cinema fans.
93% of 66,069 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,387$59.99DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
A dark fantasy action RPG where death costs you health and every corner hides another ambush. Scholar of the First Sin reshuffles enemies, adds the invader Forlorn, and bundles all DLC. Harsh, strange, and generous with builds, it is worth playing for soulslike fans who want a long, thorny journey.
84% of 85,307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,815$39.99God of War
Kratos trades Olympus for Norse forests, mountains and caves, with his son Atreus in tow. Fights are close, heavy and physical, built around timing, blocking and reading tough enemies. Soulslike fans get deliberate combat, hard optional bosses and gear-based growth, wrapped in a stern father-son story.
95% of 131,161 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,806$49.99Onimusha: Way of the Sword
As Miyamoto Musashi in Malice-twisted Edo-period Kyoto, you cut down Genma, absorb their souls through the Oni Gauntlet, and duel rival swordsmen to the death. For soulslike fans, the draw is reactive swordplay built on parries, deflections, and perfectly timed Issen counters against tough bosses.
90% of 17,556 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,159$69.99Cuphead
Cuphead is a run-and-gun built around boss fights, drawn like a 1930s cartoon with hand-drawn animation, watercolor backgrounds and original jazz. You learn each boss the hard way, then beat your debt to the devil one pattern at a time. For soulslike fans, it gives that same loop of study, die, adjust and win.
96% of 201,179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,428$19.99REMNANT II®
REMNANT II pits survivors against deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds, solo or in three-player co-op. You learn boss patterns, swap gear for each biome, and push through dynamically generated dungeons to stop an evil from unmaking reality. Methodical gunplay with melee when things get close.
82% of 47,153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,285$49.99
