Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It helps, too, that we love a good imitation, whether we call it a spiritual successor or a [insert title here]-like. There is a fine line between cheap ...

Code Vein transforms the Souls-like experience with anime aesthetics and a post-apocalyptic setting filled with gothic ruins and vampiric creatures. You awaken as a Revenant, a hunter seeking blood to ...

FromSoftware’s Dark Souls released in 2011 was a spiritual successor to their previous endeavor “Demon’s Souls”. It took the world by storm birthing a new kind of action RPG which everyone has come to ...

Souls-like, whose name is an homage to the Dark Souls trilogy that spawned it, is as iconic as well known. And for good measure, because when Dark Souls hit the gaming scene in 2011, its unique design ...

FromSoftware's Dark Souls was one of the most important games of the 2010s, as its popularity essentially ushered in a new subgenre of action RPGs. Building on Demon's Souls' brilliance, the spiritual ...

The next Souls experience released by FromSoftware should have a few changes to make it the best in the franchise if it ever ...

Kerem is a writer and video editor with five years of experience under his belt. When he's not writing or editing, you can find him playing yet another Soulslike game, installing Elder Scrolls: Skyrim ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The souls-like genre has become the flavor-of-the-industry in recent ...

It still baffles me that the industry has not come up with a new term for 'Souls-likes' we can all agree on. Perhaps that’s partly to blame for why every game that rubs elbows with FromSoftware’s work ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The versatility of the Souls-like genre is that a lot of its best ...