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

2. Thymesia

‘Hard To Pronounce Dark Souls’, I’m sorry these titles are really going downhill, deserves better than for me to refer to it that way because Thymesia, though it’s one of the little guy games on this list, is a fantastic condensed Soulslike that excels in almost every way.

Created by first time developer OverBorder Studio and published by Team 17, Thymesia is another action-RPG that slides neatly into the Soulslike genre while still offering you something quite different than you’d get in a FromSoftware game. The combat has a very high level of challenge and expects a lot of you so you’ll want to go in prepped for that, but the worst thing we can really say about it is it’s fairly short so it leaves you wanting more. Then again, when the rest of the genre threatens to gobble up hundreds of hours of your time, there’s certainly room for a tighter, short and sweet Souls experience.

The game gives you a cool cape and a plague mask and sends you on your way to save, well, yet another game world that has been devastated by a plague and is now riddled with monsters. It’s just how these things go.

Your protagonist Corvus can engage with a variety of different playstyles, plague weapons to wield, skills to obtain, and the addition of a raven form that you can shapeshift into when the mood strikes. Naturally Thymesia has a dramatically smaller budget but if you want the vibe of Sekiro and Bloodborne with a variety of bosses to battle in a neat little package, it’s all here for you.