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2026 PC

A soulslike boss rush where you play Bandi, taking on towering colossi to bring light back to a world swallowed by shadow. Each fight has three phases and demands precision, patience and adaptation.

What defines Light Odyssey:

  • Challenging difficulty
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Fantasy setting
  • Action-packed real-time combat

The closest matches for Light Odyssey are Eldest Souls, Thymesia and Rubinite. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Light Odyssey special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Eldest Souls

98 %

2021 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 19.99 € 👍 73 % Mostly positive, 3,807 reviews on Steam

  • Challenging difficulty
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Fantasy setting

A dark pixel-art boss-rush soulslike where a lone knight takes on fallen gods one after another. It's all about precise dodging, learning attack patterns and experimenting with abilities.

Thymesia

Dark, serious atmosphere

A fast, punishing soulslike where you play plague doctor Corvus, relying on precise parries and dodges and on the disease powers of plundered weapons. Combat rewards aggression over turtling, set in a grim, decaying kingdom.

Rubinite

Challenging difficulty

A dark fantasy boss rush action game in which princess Ruby seeks revenge to reclaim her kingdom. Its Focus mechanic lets her spot enemy weak points and land precise thrust attacks.

Mortal Shell

Dark, serious atmosphere

A compact soulslike where you possess fallen warriors as "shells", each with its own abilities. The Harden mechanic lets you briefly turn to stone to absorb hits, making combat tense and tactical in a bleak, decaying world.

Eastern Exorcist

Challenging difficulty

A hand-painted 2D side-scrolling soulslike action RPG where you play an exorcist battling demons in an East Asian-inspired world, relying on tight dodging, parrying and talisman-based abilities.

Severance: Blade of Darkness

Dark, serious atmosphere

A brutal third-person swordfighting game where you play a Knight, Barbarian, Dwarf or Amazon and carve through enemies with heavy combos and gory, weighty combat on the hunt for a Necromancer. Its demanding, physical combat and grim dark-fantasy mood made it a cult classic.

Overgrowth

Action-packed real-time combat

A physics-driven combat game where you play a fighting rabbit, countering, throwing, kicking and slashing your way through enemies. Its fluid yet hard-to-master controls and a big modding community set it apart.

False Hero

Challenging difficulty

A fast-paced soulslike where you steal enemy attacks and chain them into your own combos. You explore a corrupted land of the gods and face demanding boss fights.

Dinoblade

Action-packed real-time combat

You play a young Spinosaurus wielding a greatsword in a soulslike action adventure against armed dinosaurs, trying to stop an extinction. The quirky premise is paired with demanding combat.

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