Souls-like Games Rated Easiest to Hardest
The Dark Souls series is famous for its hellishly high difficulty, which requires, above all, patience. Games inspired by Dark Souls are trying to emulate that, with various results. Here's our list rating souls-like games from easiest to hardest.
14. Mortal Shell
- Date of premiere: 18 August 2020
- Platforms: PC, PS4, XOne
- Developer: Cold Symmetry
- Publisher: Playstack
The general evaluation of Mortal Shell's difficulty level on the Internet indicates that we're dealing with a game much easier than the original Dark Souls, it's main inspiration. I can agree. The game is more accessible, and probably only the idiosyncratic combat system increases the difficulty of the game. Once we have mastered the fight, we won't find much of a challenge here.
Mortal Shell is advertised with slogans about testing the player's perseverance and common sense. There's something to that, as long as we bear in mind that the game indeed tests our patience – with it's general lack of polish. It's more that than it being a well-designed, properly difficult game.
13. Code Vein
- Release date: September 27, 2019
- Platforms: PC, PS4, XOne
- Developer: Shift
- Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
We are approaching the middle of the list, so the difficulty level represented by the following games will increase. At first glance, Code Vein seems to be quite challenging. However, the further we progress in the game, the easier it becomes, not to mention the co-op mode which facilitates the game even more. Nevertheless, I wouldn't count this title among the easiest in the soulslike genre.
It stands out from the competition with a stronger character class division and styling. You can also feel the strong God Eater vibes – it was a series previously created by Shift studio. This game may hence be more difficult to some, as it doesn't take the typical road, and Code Vein tries to bridge the two worlds.
