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Best Soulslike game for beginners? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve never played a soulslike games because they are a bit intimidating to me. Amy recommendations for soulslikes games to start on or for beginners to the genre?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Demon's Souls isn't available on PC, but it is the original Soulslike game. Your best bet is to start with Dark Souls 1. They're not necessarily easy, but it is the origin to an entire genre, so I feel like those may be a better intro to Soulslike. Also, Elden Ring is too demanding - unless you have a good rig, in that case, you can pick that first. For a gothic vibe, you can go with Bloodbourne.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I primarily game on the steam deck and I think Elden ring is one of the top played games so I’m sure it works well on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You could try dark souls 3 for the closest to eldenring experience while being 60fps. Then go onto eldenring or dark souls remastered. Dark souls 2 is a black sheep that plays and feels different to the rest and has all around wild design choices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Elden Ring runs just fine on my Deck, but it drains my battery pretty fast.

But I have a refurbished non OLED deck so ymmv.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

From the posts out there, it looks like the game runs somewhere in the 30-40fps range, so the game is playable, but definitely not in the 60fps range. You may or may not like the frame-rate inconsistency, and it requires some sort of tweaking here and there.