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Mainly seems that Soulslike focuses more on the action and less on the adventure

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Soulslike are very adventurest. They just focus heavily on stiff combat.

I second that notion.

Soulslike are action adventure. The distinction is more so people copying them.

From my understanding "Soulslike" is supposed to be a subgenre of action-adventures games that are particularly hard, and focused on environmental storytelling.

Squall28 posted...

Soulslike are action adventure. The distinction is more so people copying them.

This. I consider it a Souls like if it has similar combat systems. Limited Stamina, limited healing items, can't cancel attack animations to block/dodge, you die in just a few hits and you lose accumulated exp upon death.

If it has multiple of those aspects, then yeah, I feel like they're copying Dark Souls.

Soulslikes can also be characterized by their unique online components, as well as well as big looping retro dungeons with a focus on art and gameplay over graphics and life simulator stuff, while constantly making passes on that subject matter. Soulslikes tend to be overt about what they're trying to fit in with, paying respects to FromSoftware and the fans, as part of their very identity. It's much more blatant than fighting games, which all tend to lean on each other pretty hard in terms of key concepts and references to the player, not to mention what goes on behind the scenes. Soulslikes are equal parts serious esotericism and trollish meta creatorisms. There's as much anime in there as there is western fantasy. It's a brilliant little thing they got going on.

A big theme is always player skill/ achievement + cosmic horror , if you can see why we like that

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