Top 10 Games: Souls-likes
The highest-graded souls-like games we have reviewed, best first.
Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceFromSoftware deletes the build screen and asks one question: can you learn the rhythm?Read the review
Elden RingThe open-world formula rebuilt around curiosity instead of checklists, at a scale no one else has matched.
BloodborneGothic horror that mutates into cosmic horror mid-game, powered by the most aggressive combat in the Souls line.
Dark SoulsOne folded, continuous world that turns geography into memory and death into a currency you learn to spend.
Demon's Souls (2020 Remake)A launch showpiece with the sense to rebuild every wall in Boletaria and leave every fight exactly where it was.
Lies of PA belle epoque Pinocchio built out of borrowed parts, and the first imitator to earn a seat at the table it copied.
Mina the HollowerYacht Club builds a Game Boy shaped adventure with a burrow button and a difficulty curve that expects you to learn.
Black Myth: WukongSpectacular Chinese mythology rendered at enormous expense, wrapped around combat that never quite finds its footing.
Demon's SoulsHostile by design, and every corridor you learn turns that hostility into meaning.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderParrying blaster bolts finally feels like the fantasy, and the Vader ending is staged with real restraint.
