The Best Souls Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

Update : Drova - Forsaken Kin added at rank #11.
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Unsouled (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Unsouled is a 2D action RPG game requiring immense elaborate control. Take a break from repetitive attack and dodge action by challenging yourself with the world of Unsouled.


  • souls
  • swordplay
  • pve
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • rpg
  • top-down
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • stylized
  • zombies
  • controller-support
  • atmospheric
  • difficult
  • fight

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Volgarr the Viking 2 (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

A hardcore, 2D action-platformer where only precision can keep you from death.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • hack-and-slash
  • scroller
  • precision
  • fantasy
  • souls
  • mythology
  • hand-drawn
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • 1980s-arcade
  • fine-tuned
  • magic
  • dark

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Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Linux PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.


  • souls
  • metroidvania
  • scroller
  • gothic
  • dark
  • blood
  • lore
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • boss-fight
  • difficult
  • horror
  • platform

34

Blasphemous (2019)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS Xbox One Nintendo Switch

"Blasphemous" is a gripping game that transports you to a twisted world of religion and horror. You play as The Penitent One, the last survivor of the massacre of the 'Silent Sorrow', and must use devastating combos and brutal executions to smite grotesque monsters and titanic bosses. With non-linear gameplay and a variety of different landscapes to explore, you must uncover the many secrets hidden deep inside this nightmarish world to find redemption and break your eternal damnation.

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What we like:
  • Great graphics and artistic design
  • Challenging and rewarding combat
  • Immersive and gruesome enemy character design
What could be improved:
  • Obscure and difficult progression
  • Hieroglyphic map design
  • Unpractical fast travel system
  • Alleviating penalty for dying required to hunt out each individual location at which you died and recover all of your corpses

  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • gore
  • pixel
  • platform
  • gothic
  • non-linear
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • violent
  • fast-paced
  • blood
  • 2d
  • boss

35

Death's Gambit (2018)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.


  • souls
  • boss
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • boss-fight
  • platform
  • rpg
  • combat
  • action
  • arpg
  • metroidvania

36

Source of Madness (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows

Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.


  • lovecraftian
  • rogue-like
  • dark
  • roguevania
  • souls
  • fantasy
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • procedural
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • action
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • physics

37

Death or Treat (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Mac OS (Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch) Playstation 4

The Halloween spirit is missing! Play as Scary and help him save HallowTown. "Death or Treat" is a 2D action-roguelite and hack & slash, with handpainted environments and traditional animation. Explore all the worlds and defeat hordes of enemies using different weapons and skills.


  • rogue-like
  • hack-and-slash
  • souls
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • inventory
  • colourful
  • 1990s
  • management
  • steampunk
  • combat
  • cute

38

Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity (2016)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.

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  • souls
  • lovecraftian
  • horror
  • violent
  • dark
  • gothic
  • psychological
  • historical
  • pixel

39

Arto (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Android

Breathe color into a desaturated world in this action-RPG. Fight unique enemies and bosses in a quest to bring life back to your world. Explore different biomes in ever-changing art styles, with varied mechanics, from hack-and-slash to stealth and platforms!

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  • isometric
  • souls
  • hack-and-slash
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • 3d
  • action
  • atmospheric
  • sport
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • combat

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Full Quiet (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch

In this open-world game of survival, mystery and adventure you must learn how Pap and his radio buddies maintained their radio grid, protected the lands they now walk and silenced the forest in order to find your missing son.

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  • souls
  • survival-horror
  • hunting
  • 1980s
  • metroidvania
  • retro
  • action-adventure
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • survival
  • horror
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • open-world

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