9 Best Dark Souls Games That AREN'T Dark Souls - Commenter's Edition

4. The Last Hero Of Nostalgaia

Since I’ve decided to go on this tangent of shorthanding all these games with applicable Souls descriptors, developer Over the Moon has provided us with Funny Souls.

If that doesn’t make any sense to you, basically this is Dark Souls if you injected lighthearted humour, and a heavy dose of charm. While the humour doesn’t hit for everyone and there are issues with the checkpointing and travel systems, The Last Hero of Nostalgaia gives you a story worth experiencing, a toned down stat system that doesn’t inundate you, balanced challenges, and expanded features like puzzles and the ability to ‘remember’ weapons letting you pull them forward to new areas and improve them. Also, you play as a headless stick figure which, if you’ve been watching the gameplay and don’t understand why I haven’t mentioned that yet, yeah, that’s a thing. The game world that was built from video games is running out of memory and as a result everybody in it is out to get you. Somehow this game parodies FromSoft while emulating it in a way that has still produced a genuinely solid game. You can choose from various classes, get your hands on better equipment, and play in co-op, so all your classic Soulsy features are there. Except it’s giving ‘We have Dark Souls at home’.

And this game has a character customization menu for your stick figure that does literally nothing… because you’re a stick figure so it’s objectively a better game.