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Dark Souls [a] is a dark fantasy action role-playing game series developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Created by Hidetaka Miyazaki , the series began with the release of Dark Souls (2011) and has seen two sequels, Dark Souls II (2014) and Dark Souls III (2016).
Dark Souls is notable for its level of difficulty; shown here is a boss fight from the game's Artorias of the Abyss expansion. Dark Souls is a third-person action role-playing game. A core mechanic of the game is exploration. Players are encouraged to proceed with caution, learn from past mistakes, or find alternative areas to explore.
A Soulslike (also spelled Souls-like) is a subgenre of action role-playing games known for high difficulty level and emphasis on environmental storytelling, typically in a dark fantasy setting. It has its origin in Demon's Souls and the Dark Souls trilogy by FromSoftware , the themes and mechanics of which directly inspired several other games.
FromSoftware, Inc. is a Japanese video game development and publishing company. Founded by Naotoshi Zin on November 1, 1986, as a business software developer, the company released their first video game, King's Field, for the PlayStation in 1994.
The existing PC version of Dark Souls II received the 1.10 patch at no charge; the remastered Scholar of the First Sin edition must be purchased separately, but is available at a discount to existing Dark Souls II owners. The remastered version uses DirectX 11 instead of 9, and save data from the original version is incompatible with it.
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Title Genre Developer/Publisher Platform Release date Notes The 7th Guest: Interactive movie, adventure, puzzle supernatural: Trilobyte: MS-DOS, Windows, CD-i, OS X, iOS: 1993-04 [1]
A portmanteau of masochist and hardcore, referring to a genre of punishingly difficult games, particularly the Dark Souls series and related Soulslikes as well as indie games such as I Wanna Be the Guy and Super Meat Boy. [99] The genre is popular among hardcore gamers. See also Nintendo hard. [100] [101] massively multiplayer online game (MMO)