12 Facts About Dark Souls

Dark Souls is a series of action role-playing games created by Hidetaka Miyazaki of FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Dark Souls has received critical acclaim, with the first game often cited as one of the greatest in video games, with the series as a whole being both praised and criticized for its high level of difficulty.

Dark Souls games are played in a third-person perspective, and focus on exploring interconnected environments while fighting enemies with weapons and magic.

Dark Souls gained are usually proportional to the difficulty of fighting certain enemies; the more difficult an enemy, the more souls the player will gain.

Dark Souls is the first game in the series; it is considered a spiritual successor to Demon's Souls.

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In 2012, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition was released for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, featuring the base game and the Artorias of the Abyss downloadable content.

The plot of Dark Souls is primarily told through environmental details, in-game item flavor text, and dialogue with non-playable characters.

Dark Souls III was released in 2016 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Dark Souls III was both critically and commercially successful, with critics calling it a worthy and fitting conclusion to the series.

Unlike its successors, Demon's Dark Souls uses a central hub system known as the "Nexus" where players can level up, repair equipment, or buy certain items, before venturing into one of the five connected worlds.

The first Dark Souls has been cited to be among the greatest video games of all time, Dark Souls II received critical acclaim upon release.

Dark Souls III broke sales records upon release, selling over three million copies worldwide by May 2016 and was Bandai Namco's fastest-selling game until being surpassed by Elden Ring in 2022.