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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.

  • Interconnected level design
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Melee combat with weapons or fists
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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King's Field

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1995PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Shadow Tower: interconnected level design, melee combat with weapons or fists and a 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.

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King's Field II

Challenging difficulty

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.

Shadow Tower: Abyss

Challenging difficulty

In Shadow Tower Abyss you delve into a gloomy tower full of monsters, where every fight and every step can be dangerous. It demands patience and careful play and rewards you with an oppressive atmosphere that strongly echoes the King's Field series.

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.

Lunacid

Boss fights as highlights

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.

Dark Souls: Remastered

Boss fights as highlights

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.

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.

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Veil of Darkness

Dread and tension

A 1993 gothic horror adventure with real-time isometric action: you hunt vampires in a cursed valley ruled by a count, exploring, fighting and solving puzzles to stop him.

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