![]() Martin and will likely straddle the launch window for the new XBOX and Playstation platforms, while the latter won Game of the Year from…The Game Awards? Okay, as someone who has played Sekiro, don’t hold that against it. Building on the former’s success, the studio has another European fantasy-inspired non-Souls-branded title in development, Elden Ring, which is being made in collaboration with author George R. FromSoftware themselves have released two side-series following the lead of the Dark Souls trilogy - Bloodborne and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. In that space, you can find games such as The Surge (Souls, but grungy, slow sci-fi), Nioh (Souls, but level-based technical mastery from Ninja Gaiden team), CODE VEIN (Souls, but cloyingly anime), and, somehow, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Souls, but with lightsabers). ![]() We can wander into the weeds - FromSoftware’s Demon Souls was a close predecessor to the game, and was the bridge from their King’s Field series to the modern, third-person action sensibilities that the genre demanded - but Dark Souls is the title that led to massive financial success for the studio in worldwide sales, and more importantly for our purposes, is the game that changed the entire paradigm within which third-person action games are made.ĭark Souls has been so influential that there is a Steam Store tag - “Souls-like” - for games which have taken after the game. Dark Souls is probably the single most important video game of the last decade, and it’s not particularly close.
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