Most played surreal soulslike games
Dream logic meets strict timing in these most played surreal soulslike games. In GRIME and GRIME II you study strange creatures, time your blocks and counters, and lose progress when you fall, while Memoirium bends familiar spaces into odd rules you learn through trial. Expect careful stamina use, tough bosses and losing ground after each death until you try again.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
A turn-based RPG where every enemy turn is a timing test. You dodge, parry and counter in real time, learn attack rhythms, and aim for weak points while building your party through gear, stats and skills. Set in a Belle Époque-inspired dark fantasy where the Paintress paints one lower number each year.
95% of 184,404 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,135$49.99Hollow Knight: Silksong
As Hornet, princess knight armed with needle and silk, you climb the haunted kingdom of Pharloom toward its shining citadel. Expect swift acrobatic combat, more than 200 foes and over 40 bosses, crafted tools and traps, and a long, difficult pilgrimage soulslike fans will recognize.
89% of 391,557 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,609$19.99Hollow 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 509,119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,265$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: 3,879$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: 2,428$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: 1,343$24.99Lies of P
A soulslike that turns Pinocchio into Geppetto's puppet stalking the plagued, blood-covered city of Krat. Combines mix-and-match weapons and Legion Arms with hard parry-or-punish bosses, plus lies that shape your path. Worth playing for soulslike fans who want Belle Epoque gloom with a strong, strange story.
91% of 59,680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,368$59.99Remnant: From the Ashes
A third-person shooter built on soulslike bones: checkpoints that respawn enemies, stamina-based dodging, hard bosses with patterns to learn, and death that sends you back. You fight the interdimensional Root across Earth and three other worlds, alone or with up to two survivors, building guns, armor and mods until the next boss falls.
84% of 47,651 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 543$39.99Nine Sols
Nine Sols is a hand-drawn 2D action-platformer with Sekiro-style deflection combat, made for soulslike fans who want hard bosses and a strange world to unravel. As the vengeful Yi, you slash, deflect, and stick Taoist talismans to enemies to blow them up, while hunting the 9 Sols across New Kunlun.
94% of 41,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 521$29.99Blasphemous
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: 489$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: 286$19.99Death's Door
You are a small Crow reaping souls on the clock until one is stolen, sending you to a realm untouched by death where things have grown huge with greed and power. With sword, arrows, and magic, you learn big tyrants and beasts move by move until you win. Short, sharp, funny, and bleak in equal measure.
92% of 20,676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 318$19.99
