Demon's Souls

8.7 / 10

Release Date

12 November 2020

Platforms

PS5

Publisher

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Developer

Bluepoint Games

Store Pages

01Overview

Demon’s Souls is a remake of the 2009 action RPG, rebuilt from the ground up with new visuals, animations, audio, and performance improvements while preserving the original game’s structure and combat. Players enter the fallen kingdom of Boletaria after King Allant awakens the ancient being known as the Old One, unleashing a colorless fog and creatures that consume human souls. As a lone warrior, players explore separate regions filled with hostile enemies, traps, shortcuts, and bosses while collecting Souls that can be used to increase character attributes, purchase equipment, and improve weapons. Combat requires careful stamina management, blocking, dodging, parrying, and learning enemy attack patterns. Different weapons, armor sets, spells, and miracles support a range of character builds. Death causes players to drop their collected Souls at the location where they fell, giving them one opportunity to recover them. The Nexus acts as a central hub connecting Boletaria’s regions and providing access to characters and progression systems. Online features include cooperative summons, player invasions, messages, and bloodstains that show how other players died.