Dark Souls: Remastered
Explore Lordran, build a fighting style and recover souls lost in battle. Bonfires restore your resources but bring defeated enemies back, making each rest a decision about the journey ahead.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.0 / 10
About this game
Dark Souls: Remastered takes you through Lordran's connected castles, dungeons and catacombs. Fight with weapons or spells, evade attacks with a roll, or time a parry to create a counterattack. Equipment choices shape your approach, while souls spent at bonfires raise the attributes you select. Bonfires replenish health and healing supplies, but resting also returns defeated enemies to the world. Death leaves your carried souls behind; reaching the bloodstain retrieves them, while dying again first erases that chance. Exploration therefore involves deciding when to press onward, recover a loss or return to safety. This edition also includes Artorias of the Abyss.
Collected in series
Dark Souls is a dark-fantasy action RPG series about exploring fading kingdoms and finding a way past their dangers. Weapons, armor and magic shape your character, while learning an enemy's habits or discovering a connecting path can matter as much as gaining another level.
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AI review
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A strong fit for players who enjoy deliberate combat and consequential recovery attempts.
Choosing equipment and deciding how to answer an attack can reward players who like refining an approach. The bloodstain rule adds a separate tension: the next expedition may be about recovering resources rather than discovering somewhere new.
Strengths
- Build choices give players several ways to approach combat.
- Connected exploration and bonfire decisions can make learning a route feel useful.
Weaknesses
- Repeated deaths before recovering a bloodstain may frustrate players who dislike losing accumulated resources.
Who it is for: Players drawn to equipment experimentation, careful combat and learning dangerous routes.
Play notes: Cloud save backups are unavailable on this edition; use the game's quit menu when ending a session.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Restoring resources while reviving enemies can turn a retreat into another planned journey through familiar ground. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Rolling, parrying and equipment choices offer meaningful alternatives for players willing to study how they fight. | Reviewed | 9.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Castles, trapped dungeons and catacombs give the journey a dark-fantasy setting that may appeal to explorers of ruined places. | Reviewed | 9.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The lack of cloud backups makes the documented quit procedure a practical consideration for managing this edition's saves. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- QLOCVirtuosFromSoftware
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco
- Release date
- 2018
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Souls-likeSolo-friendly3D GraphicsThird PersonMain Story 100 Hours or MoreEquipment-driven ProgressionExplorationDark FantasyBoss-heavyReal-time CombatHigh Difficulty
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerSingle playerCo-op
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2018
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2018
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Sources
- www.darksouls.jpSource revision: 1
- www.darksouls.jp