Enter a dark world filled with despair and threaded by hope where your ability to creatively strategize, learn, and overcome unpredictable and unique challenges determines your fate. Dark Souls will demand your absolute concentration, unflinchingly punish your mistakes, but reward your ability to learn from death. Each challenge is a mind game met with endless combinations that will test your ability to creatively strategize a way to conquer unimaginable monsters, and progress deeper into this bleak and forbidding environment filled with the un-dead.
- Extremely Deep, Dark, and DifficultUnforgiving in its punishment, yet rewarding for the determined – learn to strategize freely and conquer seemingly impossible challenges. You will organically design your own gameplay style by developing your character, and continuously trying different strategies to finally achieve successful progression.
- Fully Seamless WorldExplore a completely integrated world of dark fantasy, where dungeons are seamlessly intertwined with great height.
- Mastery Earns ProgressionContains 60 hours of gameplay, with nearly 100 unique despair-inducing monsters, and an incredibly nuanced weaponry and magic spells system, the effectiveness of which is determined by combat situation, fighting style, and character attributes. Player success depends on their eventual mastery of how and when to use the magic spells, choice of armor, the number of weapons, the types of weapons, and the moves attached to the weapons.
- Network PlayPlayers may cross paths with one another, interacting with each other throughout the game even as each player plays his/her own game. Networked play allows users to cross paths with one another to enhance the single-player gameplay experience without destroying it.
- Flexible Character Development and Role PlayAs the player progresses, (s)he must carefully choose which of the character's abilities to enhance, as this will determine the progression style. Players can choose to play as a sword master and a wizard, for example.
- CommunitySee other real players and empathize with their journey, learn from seeing how others died, and find and leave messages for your fellow players – helping them or leading them into death.