The 10 Greatest Soulslike Fantasy Games of All Time, Ranked

A Soulslike video game is a specific subgenre of role-playing games with several defining characteristics. These games are often difficult by design, with death being a regular part of gameplay, and feature heavy amounts of environmental storytelling, open-level design, and regular checkpoints, usually in the form of things like bonfires or lampposts. The games also make you lose your currency when you die and require you to run back to your corpse to retrieve it—if you die again on the way there, your currency is gone forever.