Most played retro soulslike games
These most played retro soulslike games mix old-school pixel and low-poly style with careful fights where you learn attack patterns and time each dodge, block and parry. Lunacid sends you through shadowed tunnels with dozens of weapons and spells to master, Souldiers moves you across a vivid afterlife of roomy dungeons and blocked paths, and Tombwater leaves you to clear a doomed western town crawling with unnatural creatures.
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Hollow Knight
A hand-drawn 2D action adventure through Hallownest, a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. You dodge, dash, and slash through twisting caverns and ruined cities, learn 30 bosses the hard way, and forge your own path with spells, skills, and charms. Worth playing for the fights and the fall.
96% of 508,872 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,330$14.99Dead 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: 4,357$24.99Cuphead
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 201,152 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,346$19.99Rain World
You are a small slugcat in a ruined world where almost everything wants to eat you. Hunt food with a spear, learn how each predator thinks, and reach shelter before the rain drowns everything. Brutal, strange, and hard to put down once its ecosystem clicks.
94% of 48,009 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,445$24.99Blasphemous
Blasphemous is a brutal 2D soulslike metroidvania set in Cvstodia, a gothic land cursed by the Miracle. As the Penitent One you cut through grotesque monsters and huge bosses with combos and gory executions, while relics, rosary beads and prayers shape your build for soulslike fans who want deliberate combat and a dark, lore-rich world.
90% of 55,769 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 511$24.99Mina the Hollower
Mina the Hollower is a top-down action-adventure with soulslike teeth: a cursed island, beastly bosses, and death that costs your bones and spark. You whip with Nightstar, burrow under hazards, and build Mina with sidearms, trinkets, and levels. Harsh early, fair once its dodge-burrow rhythm clicks.
87% of 7,981 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 401$19.99Blasphemous 2
The Penitent One wakes in a strange new land to end the Miracle's cycle, cutting through grotesque monsters and twisted bosses across a gothic labyrinth. With three swappable weapons, brutal executions and hard-learned patterns, it is penance with better footwork.
91% of 17,536 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 269$29.99TUNIC
A small fox with a short sword in a bright, ruined land that still fights like a soulslike: careful stamina, timed dodges and parries, hard bosses, and shrines that heal you while bringing enemies back. Worth it for the loop of dying, learning patterns, and pushing a little farther each time.
91% of 17,015 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 192$29.99Dimraeth
Dimraeth is a pixel-art action RPG with deliberate stamina-based combat: read telegraphs, then strike, dodge, block or parry. With 48 race-and-class archetypes, more than 300 spells, bosses, loot and 8-player co-op, it gives soulslike fans a build-crafting hunt to chew on.
77% of 2,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$21.99Drova - Forsaken Kin
Drova - Forsaken Kin is a pixel-art action RPG about a harsh world ruled by angry nature spirits and two rival factions. You start as a nobody, learn deliberate melee combat with dodges, parries and stamina, and earn teachers, gear and spirit powers that decide how you survive.
93% of 9,670 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 122$24.99Lunacid
Thrown into the Great Well for crimes unknown, you crawl a moonlit underworld toward the sleeping Old One. Lunacid is a retro first-person dungeon crawler with deliberate swipe, block, and backstep combat, 75 weapons, 37 spells, and secrets behind every second wall. Come for slow dread and discovery, not a boss rush.
90% of 10,567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 117$13.99Kotama and Academy Citadel
Kotama and Academy Citadel is a 2.5D side-scrolling metroidvania where you fight for the Carmel Star across a high-tech academy. For soulslike fans, the draw is parry-focused duels against bosses that can end you in a heartbeat if you misread them.
80% of 2,628 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 91$19.99
