Dark Souls: 10 Cheats & Glitches That Broke The Game
How could YOU DIE less often?
Dark Souls games are hard. Famously hard. Obviously not for someone reading this who beat all three of the numbered titles the first time they ever saw them with one hand behind their back and using only bongos.
This isn’t for you. Tell us mere mortals to “git gud” and be on your way.
No, these games tread the very fine line between challenge and unfairness, where every death you take (and you will take many) is at least somewhat your own fault. As with almost every game released and played by such a wide fanbase, there were always oversights, errors and downright cheats that existed to make the struggle a little easier for any who wanted to limit their suffering.
For the sake of this list, we’ll be looking at Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 only. Feel free to be angry about this and fight amongst yourselves.
So grab your estus flask, put a parry shield in your offhand, spend longer choosing your fashion than your main weapon and let’s go die a little less often than usual, together.
10. Cheat Engine
The original, the granddaddy and to this day, the go-to for cheaters and challenge streamers alike. It’s a piece of software for PC that when opened up can more or less edit any value within the game.
This is a very powerful tool and has a lot of uses that could be called “legitimate” - limiting health or stamina to 1 for a challenge run for example, or being used in live speedruns to gift the runner a necessary item if it doesn’t appear as a random drop.
More nefarious uses should be obvious. People would give themselves a stupidly high value for their HP pool or just “fix” it in place so that they can never lose health. Updating your movement speed and zipping around the map at speeds too fast to hit. Snapping your location to directly behind your opponent and backstabbing them through time and space.
Cheat engine is still available and functioning in all three iterations of the game. If you want to create a fun challenge for yourself or anything a little more sinister, you can fire it up to this day. Obviously, do so at your own risk if you choose to do it online.