Top rated scary soulslike games
Heavy dread hangs over these top rated scary soulslike games, where every corridor asks you to study movement and strike back with care. In DARK SOULS™ III, Hollow Knight and Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition you read bosses, time dodges and deflections, and keep going after death costs progress. Expect ruined kingdoms, strange creatures and tight stamina-based fighting that rewards patience.
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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 157,576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,357$24.99Hollow 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 508,872 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 262,179 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 184,404 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,083$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 280,240 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 7,178 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 17,428 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 101$13.74Rain 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$24.99ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
A dark 2D action RPG where Lily, a young woman waking in a ruined church, crosses the rain-blighted kingdom of Land's End with purified knights fighting for her. Expect pattern-heavy bosses, careful dodging, and new powers that open sealed paths. Worth playing for its sorrowful story, hand-drawn ruins, and Mili soundtrack.
93% of 43,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95$9.99DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
The soulslike that started it all, remastered in sharp high definition at 60fps. Wander the dark, looping kingdom of Lordran, learn brutal bosses one death at a time, and shape your own build from swords, spells, and armor. Includes the Artorias of the Abyss DLC.
92% of 102,595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,084$39.99Blood Spear
You are the weapon: a demonic spear with a thirst for blood. You hurl yourself at cultists and corrupted foes, pin them to walls, then drink their blood to heal. Short, strange, and sharp in every sense, for soulslike fans who want brutal fights in a gothic shrine above the clouds.
95% of 2,381 Steam reviews are positiveFreeWithering Rooms
A challenging 2.5D horror RPG in a Victorian mansion that rearranges itself every night. Sneak past overgrown undead, trap ghosts with hex spells, and build a character from what you scavenge. Death stings less than it should, because rituals let you keep what matters.
96% of 1,267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$24.99
