Best Souls-like games on PC
Action games centered on difficult combat, where players learn enemy attack patterns and improve through repeated attempts. Many also use RPG progression and dark fantasy settings.
- Demanding, timing-based combat
- Learning enemy attack patterns
- Repeated attempts after failure
Related: Difficult, Action RPG, Dark Fantasy, RPG
860 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Strayed Lights
A third-person action-adventure where matching colors lets you repel attacks
79% positive
318 reviews
Tombwater
A top-down Soulslike set in a monster-infested Wild West town
91% positive
317 reviews
Decay of Logos
Third-person action RPG with exploration and a mystical elk companion
54% positive
Free
Raindancer
A boss-rush action adventure where a single hit kills you
88% positive
312 reviews
Demo Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
Dark fantasy side-scrolling action RPG with tough bosses and choices
78% positive
309 reviews
Demo DOOMBLADE
A side-scrolling metroidvania where sword attacks double as aerial movement
79% positive
308 reviews
Dead
A twin-stick shooter where healing requires standing still during fights
89% positive
307 reviews
Gurei
2D boss rush where each victory makes the remaining bosses stronger
83% positive
306 reviews
The Heart of Darkness
Turn-based dark fantasy RPG where fallen warriors become your allies
84% positive
303 reviews
Monsters Domain
First-person action RPG about commanding monsters and raising the dead
41% positive
303 reviews
Infinitevania
A 2D metroidvania about absorbing powers from defeated creatures
92% positive
300 reviews
Unsouled
Action RPG built around timed combos and risky counterattacks
72% positive
298 reviews
Dolmen
Sci-fi Souls-like action RPG combining gunfire with elemental melee combat
54% positive
297 reviews
Demo Somber Echoes
A sci-fi Metroidvania built around chained, gravity-defying aerial dashes
78% positive
289 reviews
Shadow Labyrinth
A 2D metroidvania that reimagines PAC-MAN on an alien planet
55% positive
289 reviews
Kingshunt
A third-person arena brawler with summonable minions and placeable towers
50% positive
Free
Obsurity
Top-down hack-and-slash adventure with puzzles and two playable characters
75% positive
288 reviews
White Lavender
An action RPG where bugs fight with pencils and teaspoons
91% positive
287 reviews
Demo Rebel Transmute
Sci-fi metroidvania with swappable upgrades and a missing mother
76% positive
286 reviews
Nothing
Minimalist timer game where doing anything makes you lose
95% positive
284 reviews
Demo HellCat
Top-down pixel shooter about an armed cat fighting through hell
85% positive
Free
Demo HOTEL BARCELONA
Side-scrolling roguelike where ghosts of past runs fight alongside you
71% positive
280 reviews
Void Memory
A dark 2D action platformer built around demanding, deliberate combat
69% positive
Free
Pharaonic
Side-scrolling action RPG with demanding combat in ancient Egypt
78% positive
274 reviews