You died. Get up, light the bonfire and try again. The 2011 classic that made difficulty a virtue.
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Dark Souls (2011) casts you as an Undead escaped from the asylum, sent into Lordran to learn the fate of the cursed. FromSoftware built the kingdom as one interlocking world, where a shortcut opened hours later can bring you back to a bonfire from the start.
Its fights are hard but fair, its story is told in fragments, and its strange online touches, messages and phantoms of other players, made every death feel shared. Few games have been as influential.
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- FromSoftware
- Publisher
- Namco Bandai Games
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| Platform | Release date | Region | Edition | Media |
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| PlayStation 3 | September 22, 2011 | JP | Physical (FromSoftware) Physical (FromSoftware) |
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| Xbox 360 | October 4, 2011 | NA | Physical (Namco Bandai Games) |
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| Microsoft Windows | August 24, 2012 | WW | Physical (Namco Bandai Games) |
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| PlayStation 4 | May 24, 2018 | JP | Remastered | Physical (FromSoftware) |
| Xbox One | May 24, 2018 | JP | Remastered | — |
| Nintendo Switch | October 18, 2018 | JP | Remastered | Physical (FromSoftware) Digital (Nintendo eShop) |
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