Let’s explore best Dark Fantasy RPG games like Dark Souls for PC, all the mentioned game have souls like combat gameplay, exploration style.
The game setting/era can be a different but overall, you will feel like you are playing an Dark Souls alternate version with some twist.
1: Elden Ring (Most anticipated)
Genre: Dark fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Full Open-World
Game Mode: Single-player, Online co-op, 1vs1 PVP
About the game:
Game take place in dark fantasy world- “The realm of the Lands Between.” Gameplay focused on combat & exploration, you need to defeat the demigods and restore the Elden Ring.
You can consider it one of the best souls like game.
Video version (Only gameplay)
2: Mortal Shell
Genre: Dark fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Open-world but limited.
Game Mode: Single-player only
About the game:
Set in a mysterious open world where you play as a demon that inhabits the bodies of fallen heroes that you discover in your journey towards the unknown.
One of the smallest souls like game in the terms of game world.
3: Hellpoint
Genre: Dark sci-fi fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Full Open-World
Game Mode: Single-player, Online/Offline co-op
About the game:
Dark Souls type game set in sci-fi world.
Game takes place on a abandoned space colony in the aftermath of a massive cataclysm. You play a Spawn of the Authority brought to this world to investigate the circumstances of this event.
You will explore the open world of the “Irid Novo colony,” which is a massive interconnected world full of mysteries, hidden passages and secrets within secrets.
4: Lies of P (Upcoming)
Genre: Dark fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Open-world but limited
Game Mode: Single-player only
About the game:
Lies of P is Korean game similar to Dark-Souls series. Inspired by the familiar story of Pinocchio, Lies of P set in a cruel, dark Belle Époque world.
Play as Pinocchio, a puppet mechanoid, and fight through everything in your path to become Human.
5: Thymesia (Upcoming)
Genre: Dark fantasy, Fast-paced action RPG, Open-World but limited
Game Mode: Single-player only
About the game:
A kingdom once thriving on the power of alchemy enters an age of calamity. After discovering the price behind alchemy, an attempt to stop the use of it backfired. Within a few days, the kingdom was in chaos and the streets infested with monsters.
You will play as a mysterious character known by the code name “Corvus”. Prey upon your enemies, wield the power of disease (plague weapon system) and find the truth in your own memories.
6: Dragon’s Dogma- Dark Arisen
Genre: Fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Full Open-World
Game Mode: Single-player only.
About the game:
Set in a huge open world, experience epic adventure in a rich, living world with three AI companions.
Cut off the four heads of a Hydra, climb atop griffins and fight airborne, or defeat dragons and other creatures by finding out their weaknesses.
7: Arboria (Fight. Die. Repeat)
Genre: Dark fantasy, Indie Action Adventure RPG, Not open-world
Game Mode: Single-player only
About the game:
Arboria is a trollz-like 3D rogu-elite, third-person action RPG with soulslike combat.
Become a Yotun warrior, explore creepy procedurally-generated dungeons, use a variety of tools to overcome challenges, obliterate enemies using Symbiotic Weapons, and mutate to become stronger.
8: Nioh 2
Genre: Dark fantasy, Brutal Action RPG, Open-World but limited
Game Mode: Single-player, Online co-op
About the game:
Experience the thrill of taking on hordes of fearsome yokai (supernatural entities) in a battle to the death in this brutal masocore Action RPG.
Create your own original protagonist and embark on an adventure that will take you through devastated locales across Japan during the Sengoku period.
Genre: Japanese fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Open-World but limited
Game Mode: Single-player, Using Mod you can play in co-op
About the game:
Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the critically acclaimed adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of the Dark Souls series.
Explore late 1500s Sengoku Japan, a brutal period of constant life and death conflict, as you come face to face with larger than life foes in a dark and twisted world. Unleash an arsenal of deadly prosthetic tools and powerful ninja abilities while you blend stealth, and head to head combat in a bloody confrontation.
Genre: Dark fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Not open-world
Game Mode: Single-player only
About the game:
Long ago, an evil god named Adyr ruled the Human world, but later a team of heroes defeated him and banishing them to distant dimension.
Now after millennia later, that evil god is planning to return with his monstrous army, You will play as hero to investigate, how it’s happening & find a way to defeat the evil god through mele & magic combat.
11: Bound by Flame
Genre: Fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Open-World but limited
Game Mode: Single-player only
About the game:
You are a mercenary possessed by a flame demon in a desperate world ravaged by seven Ice Lords and their Dead-Army, explore this world with your selected AI companions.
In this RPG where all your choices lead to consequences, you will have to choose between unleashing the powers of the beast within or rejecting the demonic influence that wants to claim your humanity.
12: Code Vein (Anime styled Dark Soul)
Genre: Dark fantasy, Action Adventure RPG, Open-World but limited
Game Mode: Single-player, Online co-op
About the game:
Team up with an AI partner or a friend in co-op multiplayer and explore out into a world of destruction in this story driven connected dungeon experience.
Use your combined strength to coordinate your approach and defend each other from surprise attacks or tackle overpowered bosses.
I hope you enjoyed the list, all the games are closest to dark souls in terms of World setting, combat style, character development and stories, share your opinions.
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