10 Best Soulslike Games To Play On Xbox Series X|S
The Xbox Series X|S will make you a Soulslike player yet.
The Soulslike genre gets its name from a video game, especially Dark Souls. It’s a type of game that has come a long way, with new games always taking the idea to new and different levels in terms of difficulty and story. And there are quite a few of them on the Xbox Series X|S.
There are many fantastic choices for your Xbox, including one that is only available on the console, whether you’re looking for a Soulslike experience that transports you to a sci-fi world, a historical setting, or a dark fantasy realm.
The Last Hero Of Nostalgaia
The Last Hero of Nostalgia is a Soulslike game that takes a more humorous approach. Even its name pokes fun at games by FromSoftware. And, yes, you did read that right. Your hero will fight in a magical world called Soulslike Combat, which is hilariously misspelled with an extra “a” but is still full of video game nostalgia. When you choose a job, the names get even stranger and more funny, like “Sourcerer” for Sorcerer and “Datadin” for Paladin.
Even the character design is a pixelated, faceless white exoskeleton that doesn’t change no matter how much you change it. A announcer makes more jokes about the typical tropes of the genre. The art style is a nice mix of 2D and 3D. When an enemy dies, it turns into pixels, and the sword and shield fighting system is very smooth.
Thymesia
Thymesia is all about alchemy and a story similar to Bloodborne about a kingdom dealing with a dangerous plague. Here you are the mysterious Corvus, a figure with a hood and a mask like a plague doctor who can change into a crow. Also, you can use magical weapons called “Plague Weapons” that use up a lot of energy to temporarily turn your current loadout into powerful bright weapons like a scythe or tentacles to help you fight enemies better.
In the Kingdom of Hermes, the locations are well-designed and have a lot of atmosphere. Each area has a different theme, and the enemies fit in perfectly with the story of the environment. Thymesia’s history is interesting and there’s a lot to find out about it as you play, and battle has some well-done finishing animations.
Vampyr
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic serves as the setting for Vampyr, another horror Soulslike RPG for the Xbox Series X|S. It’s a Soulslike game with a dialogue wheel and choices that affect the game’s ending at key points, as is typical of Don’t Nod’s formula.
Jonathan Reid, a doctor who just turned into a vampire, is working at Pembroke Hospital to help people who have died from the flu. You can avoid attacks by teleporting, and Reid’s new blood-based skills, like Bloodspear and Abyss, which makes shadow spikes rise from the ground, give him some great new abilities.
Remnant: From The Ashes
Remnant: From The Ashes adds a co-op third-person shooting mode if you don’t like fighting and parrying by yourself in Soulslike games. You can take on the scary giant bosses as an ex-cultist, a hunter, or a scrapper, for example. Each class has a connection to the game’s main themes.
They are called the Root, and they come from another world that you can travel to yourself. The procedural generation feature makes sure that each time you visit, you’ll have a different experience. The Root’s art style makes me think of enemies from Kena: Bridge of Spirits that are darker and scarier.
Steelrising
Steelrising‘s setting in an alternate history gives it a unique idea for a Soulslike. Even though it takes place in 1789 during the French Revolution, you don’t fight against King Louis XVI’s army. In this story, Louis XVI got the technology to make huge, armed robots so he could stop the French Revolution.
Your character, Aegis, is a robot. She is one of the last good machines left, helping people like the Marquis de Lafayette and Queen Marie Antoinette. The machine-on-machine combat is a lot of fun, with a wide range of interesting weapons like Armoured Fans with blades that can both attack and protect.
Mortal Shell: Enhanced Edition
Another Soulslike game called Mortal Shell tries to do new things with the genre. As the name suggests, you start out as a character with no face or features. You can switch between different shells of armor that you pick up from dead troops along the way. There are a total of five of these shells, and each one has its own traits and functions as a class system.
The idea, mood, tough bosses, and way of fighting in Mortal Shell are most like those in Backrooms Game. The general execution, world-building, and story, on the other hand, are not as strong.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is Team Ninja’s Soulslike follow-up to the Nioh series. Like the Nioh games, it takes place in a dark fantasy alternate history, but it takes place during the much earlier Han Dynasty, when demons are once again taking over the land. You also have the power of Divine Beasts, which are perks that are based on Chinese mythological creatures and help you in fight.
Wo Long is a co-op adventure game that leans toward being more cinematic and story-rich than other Soulslike games. It has great side characters and bosses that are visually beautiful. It also has a very detailed system for making characters, which lets you make some of your favorite characters from other games and pop culture.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a must-have for your Xbox Series X|S library if you like Soulslike games and are a fan of Star Wars. This sequel to Fallen Order greatly expands the game’s features and worlds. It adds a variety of mounts for moving around, gives Cal a new companion system and a grappling hook, and uses more Star Wars creatures and enemies.
There are more puzzles and minibosses, and the places you can explore are bigger. The story is also more complicated and emotional for Cal and BD-1. They meet new people like Bode Akuna, Rayvis, and Dagan Gera, and Cere Junda, Merrin, and Greez continue to grow and change.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
With Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, FromSoftware tried something new after Dark Souls 3. You play as the titular shinobi character Sekiro, a shinobi with a grappling hook attached to your prosthetic arm, in this Soulslike sequel from a seasoned company.
In contrast to the darker Dark Souls games, the setting in historical Japan is brighter and has more greenery. However, the game is still full of enemies, both human and magical, that are just as tough as ever. Filling your opponent’s Posture bar with good parries is one of the most important parts of this game because it can kill them.
Elden Ring
Elden Ring, a gem made by FromSoftware and author and Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin, should be at the top. The combination of weapons, the beautiful fantasy setting, the difficult area bosses, and the spell-casting battle can’t get any better than this. And the huge open world of the Lands Between is a great place to explore and fight in PvP battles.
Elden Ring is a great addition to the genre that pushes the artistic boundaries of games like this. It also has some of FromSoftware’s most famous bosses, which are tied to putting together the object from Great Runes that gives the game its name.
