Every FromSoftware Soulsborne Game Ranked Worst To Best

4. Dark Souls

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Bandai Namco

Dark Souls is iconic; there’s no other way to describe FromSoftware’s modern classic. This game took all the ideas from Demon’s Souls and gave them the upgrade they deserved to create one of the freshest and most breathtaking experiences in gaming.

So many games fall to the same repetitive tropes in our modern age: go here, kill this thing; go there, collect a certain amount of items; find the boss and hit him in his weak spot for massive damage.

Dark Souls broke all of these stereotypes and crafted an experience that forced you to acknowledge your preconception of games through its insanely hard difficulty and then break them.

Attacking without thinking will get you killed; acting recklessly will get you killed; you can be doing absolutely nothing and die anyway because that’s just the type of game that Dark Souls is.

The game itself is good enough for a spot on this list, but on top of that, it also revolutionized the games industry as we know it, single-handedly re-popularized difficulty in games and bringing an entirely new video game era. One that would spawn many copycats but would also give rise to FromSoftware’s biggest hits.

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