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Four Tips To Get You Started In Blades Of Fire
22.5.2025
Developer Mercury Steam is perhaps best known for 2010’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and, more recently, Metroid Dread. The studio’s newest game, Blades of Fire, is a tough action-adventure RPG with Soulslike elements and a surprisingly in-depth weapon-forging mini-game.Read more
This Soulslike Will Respect Your Time, But Rewards You For Playing It Twice
9.5.2025
Soulslike fans continue to eat well in recent years as every developer under the sun seems eager to take a swing at the genre. Developer Silent Games’ Empyreal is among the newest attempts to capture the all-important thrill of challenging combat and dangerous exploration, casting players as...
Could We Be About To Enter A Skippable Boss Fight Utopia?
7.5.2025
In a gaming world increasingly built out of Soulslikes, where the concept of the boss battle becomes the central game mechanic, some of us have been left behind. I have always hated boss fights, and while I have no interest in convincing anyone else to agree with me, I have long lamented the lack...
Mandragora's Dark Fantasy World Offers A Lengthy Campaign With Tons Of Secrets
18.4.2025
If you’re in the mood for a dark fantasy RPG, Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree offers a grim and challenging 2.5D Soulslike experience with a lot of meat on its bones. Are you wondering just how much meat, though? Well, let’s take a look at how long it takes to beat Mandragora: Whispers...
Hungry For A 2.5D Soulslike? Here's How To Stay Alive In Mandragora
18.4.2025
If you really enjoy a challenge, then Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree may be right up your alley. This 2.5D Soulslike experience is all but certain to test your mettle with perilous exploration and difficult boss battles, promising you many hours of sweaty palms and hard-won victories....
FromSoftware's Next Game Is A Switch 2 Exclusive
2.4.2025
One of the biggest announcements during Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct wasn’t a Nintendo game or major feature reveal for the system. Instead, it was from Elden Ring developer FromSoftware, who closed out the showcase’s partner segment by revealing The Duskbloods, a new Soulslike from the team that...
The First Berserker: Khazan's Runtime Doesn't Disappoint
1.4.2025
If you’re a diehard fan of the soulslike genre, you likely want each game you dive into to be lengthy and filled with things to keep you busy. Luckily, The First Berserker: Khazan provides exactly that—a long and challenging campaign, significant amounts of gear grinding and tinkering, and tons...
AI Limit Lets You Respec To Your Heart's Content, But Not Right Away
28.3.2025
Part of the fun of role-playing games is changing things up and experimenting with unique builds, weapons, and spells. If you’re hoping to try a new build in AI Limit, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that you absolutely can respec in the game. The bad news, though, is that...
First Berserker: Khazan's Easy Mode Is An Excellent Lifeline
28.3.2025
The First Berserker: Khazan is in some ways a Soulslike crafted for hardcore Soulslike fans. There are few ways to too cheese boss fights with broken builds and the skill-checks come early and often (Chapter 3 boss Viper is already infamous as “newbie crusher). But it also has the DNA of...
AI Limit Offers A Sizeable Soulslike Experience
27.3.2025
There is an abundance of soulslike titles these days, giving fans of the brutal genre plenty of options for where to spend their time exploring, making builds, and taking down extremely challenging bosses. If you’re an anime enthusiast as well, you may have had your eye on AI Limit, which costs...
Die Just A Little Less In AI Limit With These Beginner Tips
27.3.2025
AI Limit is a challenging new soulslike title from SenseGames that I’d argue punches well above its asking price of only $35. But there’s a lot to take in during its opening hours, from fairly in-depth gameplay mechanics and button combinations to exploring locations densely packed with secrets...
The First Berserker: Khazan Is Way Better Than I Expected
24.3.2025
If Blockbuster was still a thing, The First Berserker: Khazan would be the perfect weekend rental. Grab a two-liter, some pizza, and go to town smashing and stabbing your way through a dense arcade action-RPG that will kick your ass but not waste your time. Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Good Games We Can't Get Off Our Minds
21.2.2025
Spring is almost here. I can practically feel it quietly blossoming between the 25-degree overnight lows and the desperate last flurry of snowflakes coating my driveway this week. Until then, we’re feasting on 2025's early bounty of games ahead of some heavy hitters that will be rounding out...
Elden Ring Nightreign Is The Multiplayer Hades I've Been Craving
20.2.2025
Elden Ring Nightreign looks like Elden Ring, the 2022 FromSoftware hit,and it seems like it should play like Elden Ring, an action-RPG about fighting massive bosses in a cursed open world. And in a lot of ways it does feel cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, but there are also some very...
Tails Of Iron 2 Is A Soulslike You Can Finish In A Weekend
19.2.2025
There are so many fantastic soulslike games out in the wild these days, but it’s not often that you find one that casts you as an ass-kicking rat. Well, twice. It’s that often. Tails of Iron 2 ensures that your rodent power fantasy can be played out in all its gory glory in this animal-slaying...
Elden Ring Nightreign's First Network Test Isn't Going Well At All
14.2.2025
Elden Ring’s online co-op spin-off should be beginning its first big network test today, except it’s all gone rather wrong. Back in January, soon after the announcement of this three-player incarnation of FromSoftware’s adored soulslike, a series of three-hour-long testing blocks were scheduled...
Nightreign Is Being Called A Mashup Of Elden Ring And Battle Royales And Its Release Date Is Only Months Away
12.2.2025
Elden Ring Nightreign was one of last year’s most unexpected announcements. Now it turns out the roguelike multiplayer spin-off of everyone’s favorite open-world Soulsborne is right around the corner. Bandai Namco announced that FromSoftware’s latest blockbuster will launch in May, and early...
FromSoftware Is Working On A Bunch Of New Games But Not Elden Ring 2
3.12.2024
It wouldn’t be shocking if FromSoftware decided to follow its most successful game with a sequel, but the studio recently confirmed that Elden Ring 2 isn’t currently in the works. Instead, the company behind the open-world RPG is working on other projects. I hope one of them is Armored Core VII....
Stellar Blade Hype Train Continues With PC Release Aiming For 2025
12.11.2024
Stellar Blade arrived exclusively on PlayStation 5 near the beginning of this year, but a PC port is now becoming less theoretical. Shift Up, the South Korea studio behind the sci-fi action game, recently told investors that it’s aiming to bring the game to PC sometime in 2025. Read more
8 Things To Know Before Playing Sunny Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song
24.9.2024
Enotria: The Last Song is a sunny soulslike that has an unusual sense of joy on the surface—but there’s a lot of dark stuff going on underneath. You can rest assured that your skills will be tested in typical genre fashion, and especially during the game’s opening hours, where things are at their...