The Best Souls-Like Games, Ranked

7. Lords of the Fallen

Lords of the Fallen is, at its core, a western take on the Dark Souls series. Muscular men with massive, bulky armor strut through snowy ruins, wielding swords bigger than themselves. The combat should be instantly familiar to fans of the souls games. You need to dodge and carefully choose the proper moment to strike. Every second counts and the wrong move could lead to instant death.

The style of the game is a lot different, with more of a narrative sprinkled throughout. The game’s biggest downfall is that it doesn’t do enough to separate it from the series that it draws inspiration from and what it does do differently is unremarkable at best.