Top rated soulslike games
Death is part of the plan across these top rated soulslike games, where you watch bosses closely and time each dodge, block or parry while saving stamina. DARK SOULS™ III and ELDEN RING test you in grim 3D ruins with heavy builds and steady progress, while Hollow Knight brings the same patience and pattern reading to fast 2D tunnels and shrines.
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Dead 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 157,452 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,357$24.99Black Myth: Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong is a difficult action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology and Journey to the West. As the Destined One you cross distinctive landscapes, face a long run of powerful foes and rivals, and mix staff techniques with spells, transformations, and magic vessels to find a style that survives the next boss.
96% of 883,642 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18,510$59.99Hollow 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 508,390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,330$14.99Cuphead
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 200,988 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,346$19.99Sekiro™: 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 261,951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,205$59.99Clair 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 184,203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,083$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 131,048 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,690$49.99FlyKnight Enhanced Edition
A short first-person soulslike where you are a fly squire out to lift a wing-stealing curse. Slow, deliberate fights reward chopping off arms, legs and heads, and checkpoints, loot and bosses keep the loop tight. Solo or in 2-4 player co-op, with fishing breaks in between.
96% of 10,640 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$5.99DARK SOULS™ III
DARK SOULS III is the genre-defining soulslike finale: a ruined dark fantasy world of colossal enemies, faster and harder combat, and bosses that take many tries. Learn patterns, manage stamina, dodge at the last moment, die, and go again. Bleak, tense, and deeply rewarding when it clicks.
94% of 280,104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,682$59.99Nightmare Kart
A beast hunter conscripted into a strange tournament races steam-and-copper vehicles through blood-soaked gothic streets. You blast rivals with weapons, hunt beasts to raise top speed, drift for boost, and face bosses to unlock multiple endings. Short, strange, and played at full throttle.
96% of 7,161 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8FreeArisen Force: Life Devotee - Initial Ver.
Bring up to three fighters into battle and learn each boss the soulslike way.
97% of 2,771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12FreeENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
Decades after ENDER LILIES, you wake as Lilac, an Attuner who purifies feral Homunculi and then borrows their weapons. A sorrowful 2D action RPG across factories, academies and ruined cities, with 30 companion skills to mix, adjustable difficulty, and music by Mili. A gentler door into soulslikes.
95% of 17,405 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 90$24.99
