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1998PlayStation

You climb a grim first-person tower full of monsters and winding floors, where every fight with heavy weapons demands patience. Often seen as a precursor to the Souls series, it rewards you for feeling your way through its mapless corridors with hard-won discoveries.

  • Challenging difficulty
  • Melee combat with weapons or fists
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Dread and tension
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King's Field II

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1996PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Shadow Tower: melee combat with weapons or fists, a demanding difficulty and a fantasy setting.

King's Field II is an early first-person dungeon RPG on the PlayStation where you roam sprawling, winding labyrinths as Prince Lyle. You fight grim monsters in real time with melee weapons and uncover many secrets, a forerunner of the Souls games.

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King's Field

Fantasy setting

An early real-time first-person dungeon crawler widely seen as a forerunner of the Souls games. Slow, deliberate combat, a cryptic world and a lonely atmosphere make for a grim, unforgiving journey of discovery.

King's Field: The Ancient City

Challenging difficulty

You explore a twisting, gloomy first-person labyrinth full of dangers and secrets as a knight. Its appeal lies in the dense atmosphere and the demanding, slowly learned melee combat.

Dark Souls: Remastered

Challenging difficulty

The genre-defining Soulslike: a bleak, intricately interconnected world of punishing combat, hidden paths and bosses that demand patience and precise timing. The remaster adds sharper visuals and includes the Artorias of the Abyss expansion.

Lunacid

Lots to discover

Lunacid is a first-person dungeon crawler in the spirit of King's Field and Shadow Tower, set in a dark, interconnected world full of secrets. Its deliberately crude retro look, free exploration and varied weapons and spells create an eerie, nostalgic atmosphere.

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

Dread and tension

As the freshly resurrected vampire Kain, you slash through the gloomy top-down land of Nosgoth, collecting spells, weapons and shapeshifting forms. Famed for its gothic atmosphere, richly voiced dramatic storytelling and morally grey tale of vengeance.

Voin

Fantasy setting

Voin is an indie first-person hack-and-slash set in a dark fantasy world. You cut through hordes of enemies while wielding primordial elemental powers.

Blade of Darkness

Challenging difficulty

A punishing fantasy action game with weighty, combo-based melee combat and four playable heroes, often seen as an early forerunner of Soulslike games. You carve a gory path through grim levels to stop the forces of Chaos.

Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance

Fantasy setting

A 90s first-person melee hack and slash where you fight through gloomy castles full of monsters with sword and spells, hunting for keys and secrets. Light RPG elements and a retro Build-engine feel.

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