The Best FromSoft Game Isn’t Elden Ring

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is a great game, but hardly the best one that developer FromSoftware has ever created. The critically-acclaimed open-world soulslike RPG was released in late February 2022 and almost instantly reached a paramount of success. The title has surpassed 20 million players nearly a year after its original release, showing how popular it is. For comparison,, which was released in 2016, reached the 10 million copies sales mark only in 2020.

Despite being both good and popular, it is not FromSoftware’s best game. The studio led by Hidetaka Miyazaki has developed many great hits, such as the previously mentioned and the whole series, the challenging , the gruesome, and the classic. Among all these and the series, the PlayStation-exclusive stands tall as FromSoftware’s best work to date, even though almost eight years have passed since its release in March 2015.

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is a very special game, and many of its finer details make it not only superior to, but also FromSoftware’s best title so far. Although it is labeled as an action-adventure game, it is nearly a survival horror title. With limited resources and an incredibly oppressive environment, the game is, by all means, terrifying. ’s city of Yharnam has a condensed and darker atmosphere that makes it more immersive than any other game from the studio. It does, however, not rely on mere jump scares or a stalking presence to frighten. Everything in is a menace.

Nevertheless, it is not the raw horror aspect of that makes it better than FromSoftware’s. The PlayStation-exclusive title starts off as a gothic and beastly story but transcends into a cosmic horror tale of immense proportions about ⅓ of the way into the