Fans of the Metroidvania and Souls-like genres are well fed heading into 2025. This action-adventure genre offshoot, as it stands, can be understood by playing Castlevania and Elden Ring (any ...

Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree is a 'soulsvania' — a marriage of Dark Souls-inspired mechanics and combat with the trademark ability-gated exploration and platforming of metroidvania games. To ...

If you want to understand modern action games, looking at Dark Souls and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night will get you much of the way there. More than any other games, these two titles have defined ...

“Soulslike” is a perfectly apt word to describe all the games that borrow ideas from FromSoftware’s modern school of design. It’s something that’s here to stay, and when I play something like ...

Christian has three years of experience writing in the gaming industry, including guides and reviews, for publications such as Dualshockers, Attack of the Fanboy, and PC Invasion. He has been an avid ...