Difficulty in games can be somewhat subjective, especially since most games lets players change up the difficulty level whenever they can. The same cannot be said for the Souls-like genre of games that originated from FromSoftware’s Dark Souls franchise.

This genre of games involves high risk and high reward gameplay, being notoriously difficult while emphasising player skill. A number of games have since spawned from this game style, including a remake of the originator of the…
