Soulslike, one of the most recent genres of video games that has become extremely famous in the recent days. There are discussions of such games all over the video gaming world, but unfortunately, a lot of gamers are still unaware of the types of such video games.
It is a sub genre of RPG games, but it will not be much exaggerated if said that it is getting even more popular than the classic RPG genre. It is not very old, but even in a short amount of timee it has earned a lot of success among the RPG fans and even action adventure video game fans.
All you need to know about SoulsLike
The nature of the Soulslike video games is quite similar to each other, as it will follow a map system like most of the RPG games and it will also allow players to develop their characters in a proper RPG way. There is in game currency which will allow players to make their characters more strong as the game progresses.
Demon's Souls was the first game that is recognised as a Soulslike
But the biggest part of these types of games is the difficulty. That's right, such games are extremely punishing, and a lot of players rage quit, getting frustrated with the difficulty. As it is always said, high difficulty is the biggest characteristic of the Souls games.
Dark Souls series, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring continued the legacy
The first game of its kind was Demon's Souls which was released back in 2009 exclusively for PS3. The game became such a huge hit that the developers FromSoftware started making more such game as in 2011 they released Dark Souls, which later became an amazing trilogy.
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With the success of the souls games, we finally got a new RPG sub genre; Soulslike. Some people often consider the style as Metroidvania style which is absolutely not true. Other developers have also tried to make such games like Nioh is one of the finest examples. It has become a fan favourite genre and we will surely see more growth in it in the future.
