Top rated dark soulslike games
Gloom hangs over these top rated dark soulslike games, where ruined kingdoms and plagued cities test your patience with slow, deliberate fights. In DARK SOULS™ III, ELDEN RING and Hollow Knight you watch bosses closely, time dodges and strikes around stamina, and return to checkpoints after death to try again with sharper timing and adjusted gear.
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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: 11,146$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$14.99Sekiro™: 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 184,221 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$49.99DARK 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: 5FreeENDER 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: 101$13.74Phantom 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 99,507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 189,037$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 835,755 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14,503$59.99Rain 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 47,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,445$24.99
