What Souls games have you played?

All of the ones listed. Nioh 2 being the laziest and worst game.

Demon's Souls (OG), Dark Souls 2 (but only a little bit of it), Bloodborne, Nioh, and I guess Code Vein counts (didn't get too far with that either). *edit* oh, Fallen Order of course

all the listed, then weeb souls, lords of the fallen, surge 1+2 n mortall shell, think thats all

The original Demon’s Souls, and Dark Souls 1, 2, and 3. I do have Bloodborne and Nioh in my backlog. Would like to get Demon’s Souls Remake, Sekiro, and Nioh 2 someday.

Edit: Also played Code Vein, enjoyed it. Some Lords of the Fallen, seemed ok. A bit of Mortal Shell, didn’t really care for that.

Finished:

Dark Souls 1 - 3, Lords of the Fallen

Played a lot of but didn't finish:

Nioh, Bloodborne, Sekiro

Dabbled in but didn't play a lot:

The Surge 2, Nioh 2

Voted for all of them except Nioh 2 and the Demon's Souls remake, which I'd never play anyway.

ewwwww. Did you skip Nioh? How does one play Code Vein (which i assume is your weeb souls?) and not Nioh???

Fallen Order is another one. It does everything it steals from Dark Souls worse. The majority of the chests only contain skins. The way the enemies respawn and how the bosses are retried is also far dumber within the reality of Star Wars.

Oh yeah, also played Jedi Fallen Order. Really enjoyed that game and am amped for the sequel.

Everything except Nioh 2. I find the combat to be pretty basic in all of them, but the level design in souls games are typically great. It is the only reason I play.

I've played them all except Nioh 2 and Sekiro. Nioh 1 I never finished it was just so repetitive and dull so 2 was never going to happen and Sekiro just didn't appeal to me on any level.

I love all the others.

All of them except Sekiro.

Bloodborne (amazing), Lord's of the Fallen (really enjoyed it) and The Surge (good).

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and the Surge 2, which was pretty good

oh and Fallen Order

• Dark Souls (Xbox 360, XB1) - still never beat the game yet but got decent way through back in Xbox 360 days
• Dark Souls 2 - beat it, the Scholar of First Sin Edition on the Xbox One
• Dark Souls 3 - got it at launch for Xbox One and beat it pretty quick
• Lords of the Fallen - got it on Deals With Gold for $6, pretty much the first Souls-like I ever beat
• Sekiro - made it a decent way in before hitting a difficulty wall with a couple bosses and haven't given it much time since
• Code Vein - I liked this one, basically an anime Dark Souls as advertised
• The Surge - got pretty far but got stuck on a boss in the late game and haven't been able to progress and haven't bothered to return
• Bloodborne - grabbed it when I got my PS4, dabbled but haven't given it much of an effort yet
• Nioh ‐ own it but part of my sizeable PS4 backlist
• The Surge 2 - also in backlist, not sure if just start this game or go back and try to beat the first.
• Demon's Souls - had it for PS3 when I had one but I never got around to playing it
• Jedi Fallen Order - I only mention it because everyone else considers it a Souls-like but I don't, more difficult at the start but gets much easier as you go on, and being able to re-spec skills made it easy too (I wish Sekiro had such an option)

Played Dark Souls 1 on 360, hardest boss was the frame rate.

Tried Dark Souls 2 but it's hard to play these games with no real story thread.

I'm sure the same is true for Elden Ring.

Nioh 1 and 2 are in my backlog because they have stories lol

Played and beat all but nioh 2 and sekiro.

I just can't get the parry system with sekiro and got bored with nioh 2

None. I must be the only one here that's never played a Souls game.

@navyguy21: nioh is great

Bloodborne

DS 2

DS 3

Nioh

All too hard for a filthy casual like me.

Also why no Surge, Surge 2, and Fallen Order on the list? Those are technically "soulslike" games, and good. Especially Fallen Order which is good for, again, filthy casuals like me.

@lamprey263: I enjoyed The Surge 2 more than the first game, felt more polished, like it was the game they wanted to make in the first one.

No worries. I played 4 of them. While they are good games, I find they're highly overrated on here

Demon's Souls Original and Remake

Bloodborne

Dark Souls 3

Just Bloodborne so far bought it bundled with my ps4 beat the whole thing plus the extra boss

Just Dark Souls. I liked the combat system but didn't find the game fun.

All of it.

@mrbojangles25: The hardcore souls guys like to bash Fallen Order, but it was a great game. The combat was fun, the level design was really good IMO, the map though was crap and is something I hope they do some work with for the sequel.

Tried multiple times to get into DS1 and 2 but couldn't stand either of them.

Played most of the souls games that is released on PS including 2d ones like Blasphemy, hollow knight and salt & sanctuary. Platinumed them all too. Easiest genre to plat personally.

Best is Bloodborne.

Average is DS3

Worst is The Surge 2.

Bloodborne and Nioh via PS+. Deleted them

Original Demon Souls. It was fun but enough for me.

DS1/2/Nioh/Lords Of Fallen abit of DS3, 10 minutes.

Just Demons Souls and Dark souls 2 on the Ps3. Didn't like them. Didn't find the combat enjoyable.

Just the from software games and the two Nioh games. Both Nioh games mop the floor with from softwares games in the combat department.

The second game could stand to have a bit more creative flare, but it makes the necessary improvements needed to that games enemy roster+with the added tech that come from burst counter.

From Software I think released some forgettable games in dark souls 3 and suckiro. Hopefully Elden Ring is much better.

I started my From journey in 2021, so:

Demon's Souls --> Dark Souls 3 --> Sekiro --> Dark Souls 1 --> Dark Souls 2.

Inbetween DS3 and Sekiro I played Nioh 1 / Nioh 2 but they weren't any where near as enjoyable as the souls game and since their combat was so inferior to Sekiro's I gave up after 25 hours or so.

I also have 6-8 hours in Bloodborne which technically was my first Souls game and I did return to it after finishing DS2... but I am waiting for Bloodborne remaster

next up, GOTG/GOTD winner - Elden Ring

@Chutebox: Hesitation is defeat my friend.

At one point (all summer last year) I considered throwing in the towel. But after my 4th run of Sekiro I almost did a deathless run (made it to the very last boss, who killed me twice...)

Played and completed Dark Souls, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro and Nioh.

I think DS1 is the better game, but DS3 is my favorite. Nioh has the best combat. Sekiro was a breath of fresh air, really like that game too. I wish FromSoftware did something similar again. New Tenchu, mayhaps? I wanna sneak around like a ninja.

Tried Bloodborne briefly over PSN. The streaming worked pretty well, but it made a crappy looking game looking even more crappy. As if that heavy usage of chromatic aberration didn't make the game blurry enough already. The unstable 30 fps framerate was pretty terrible as well. Felt like a huge disservice to play a good game like that, so I stopped.

Dark soul 1 and it was lazy port that show xbox button prompt. I stopped playing it.

since then no interest in fromsoft game.

@SolidGame_basic:

For me, it was Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne. Neither game have I finished or kept my attention for long. I think I should've realized that Souls-type of games just aren't my thing by Souls 3 but people just wouldn't shut up about Bloodborne.

Dark Souls - Played a bit. Was rushing through it, so I didn't give it a fair shake.

Dark Souls 2 - Played a bit but noticed I was getting through a bit easier. It was more of a rental, so I didn't have much time with it.

NioH - Played a bit, but this is where I found that the Soulsborne genre is not my type of game.

Bloodborne - I bought it one Black Friday but never played it. Traded it in later. I like the aesthetic and lore, but not sure if I should really play it.

The Surge - I watched a playthrough and it was interesting, but trying to play it was either frustrating or exhausting.

Let It Die - Have played a good amount. As a fan of the creator's work (No More Heroes is my favorite series), I found myself really enjoying this although the constant need to change characters and have to level them up from level 1 was a chore.

Code Vein - I have it, but haven't played much. I only played like the first 30 minutes or hour, basically the dungeon before you get to the hub.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - Played a bit originally but was rushing through it, played it again all the way and was taking my time and found myself enjoying it a lot. I actually want to go back and play it again. This is where I found that my like of the Soulsborne genre is within games that are not specifically tied to it, or just basically are not made by FromSoftware.

Does BotW count as a Soulslike game?

No I've played both Nioh quite extensively too, they were on the poll hence all listed

Only really played nioh and nioh2 which are great, played demon souls remake only for the campaign. I'll give elden ring a shot but I suspect I'll like stranger of paradise more. We'll see.

I 've completed DS1 + 3, Bloodborne, Nioh1 + 2, Fallen Order. 98% of the way through on DS2. I tried Code Vein, but dropped it.

Have not played Sekiro ... high chance of it coming to game pass so will wait.

Nioh 1 and 2 are easily my favorites. The combat is about a zillion times better then rest.

Fallen Order is good, not great more fun then From Software's games for the most part imo.

From Software has good level design ... but honestly that barely matters to me in action games like these. I'd like to see them cut down on stuff between the boss fights which are the best parts of their games. Fighting regular enemies is not really enjoyable.... Also don't like that they never play music during the levels.

all of them for this list and i love them all games

All of those on the list but Demon's Souls Remake because I dont have a PS5

Outside of those I also played the likes of Mortal Shell and Jedi Fallen Order

No. It just means you gave Fallen Order a bigger chance then proper souls game. From all you previous descriptions of souls games you pointed on them all "I played a bit, rushed through to it and didnt gave them a proper chance".

None of them. Always held back for some reason.

No.