Define "Soulslike"

Nowadays, it seems to be a blanket term for any game that involves swordplay

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pseudo-fantasy zanzibart-core

To label something a soulslike means you have to define it specifically around a great deal of things the Souls series does. Simply having a check point you rest at, a stamina bar, parry mechanic, or a currency you used to level don't make something a souls like anymore.

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Nowadays, it seems to be a blanket term for any game that involves swordplay

inorganic enemy autotargeting parry/roll slop

the term has devolved into being a grab bag of features like "roguelike." So you make a dark fantasy RPG with attack commitment and low TTK and you guess that's enough checks on the list to slap the label on for marketing purposes. Now you're doing tags like an indie dev.

Third person, easy to die, boss focused, action melee combat based around avoiding blows.

A game that attempts to look and play like Demon's Souls/Dark Souls.

the number one characteristic as far as I'm concerned is that the game is designed to have you die repeatedly with corpse runs and sparse checkpoints at the center of the experience

other aspects include a combat system centered around non interruptable attack animations, an iframe dodge and a parry, real time healing and a focus on fighting difficult bosses as well as rpg elements and cryptic narratives

of course as always with videogame genres those aren't perfect standards and a game can have a few of these elements without being a soulslike

bad, repetitive combat discuissed as difficulty

Medieval/victorian setting.
Very ominous and jaded, the world already ended.
Orchestral/choir music.
Takes itself incredibly serious.
Intentionally vague to the point of not knowing what the fuck is going on unless you read the hidden description of a pubic tatoo from an optional secret boss.
All good characters die unjustly.
All nice people are assholes pretending.
You are an asshole too, but you can i-frame roll.
Most if not all enemies feature body horror.
Some women have sexy feet, I wanna touch them :B.
It's basically a metroidvania in 3d + rpg elements.
Multiple endings.

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kek

does the game have a dodge button?
its a souls like

Grounded, non-spectacle third person action-RPG game with a focus on carefully getting through a dangerous environment. Capped off with boss fight walls that are meant to challenge players and not let them proceed until they actually learn enemy patterns.

Other third person action games like DMC would classify as a Spectacle fighter that's all about getting cool flashy combos and destroying everything in your path. Difficulty only comes in higher difficulties where execution becomes more important and you have to actually avoid enemy attacks.

There's also third person action adventure games that are more often about traversal and puzzles, and the actual combat is a secondary part of the gameplay. A lot of super hero games fall in this category.

With this definition, God of War used to be a spectacle fighter, but has moved toward a more grounded Action RPG in newer entries, and is somewhere in between action adventure and "souls-like" in feel, though most people would call you a retard for calling GoW a Soulslike.

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A game where enemies actually do enough damage to kill the player but also gives plenty of invulnerability frames to compensate, which ends up looking like some bizarre dance?
Also known as rollslop.

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QTE based defense.

If it has z-targeting and a stamina system then it's called soulslike

some sort of action rpg with "punishing" combat
jumping isn't a major movement skill unless it's a 2D game.
if it's 3D game it has lock-on
corpse runs
bonus if it has character builds, some level of exploration.

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i feel like soulslike is sort of a Schlitz-esque descriptor of games: when it's souls, you know it
none of the things that i feel make a game a soulslike are elements only soulslike games use

methodical combat

tempo of combat and encounters

subtextual storytelling

renewable health resource

parry and dodge rolls

emphasis on difficulty

and others, but that's what sort of comes to mind
but when a game is aping souls, you can feel it when you play and it's apparent in the design from the ground up

that being said, genres like soulslike and metroidvania are mostly bullshit based

Categorically speaking a "Souls-like" is just an action-adventure RPG, that's it, usually in some dystopian/apocalyptic fantasy world

Soulslites are games which have levels that are not linear, but games that are not open world either

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Soulslike: The game is similar to the Soulsborne games in some capacity. There is a strong chance that if you like Soulsborne games, you will like this game too. Typically, this refers to gameplay with a focus on the ability to have multiple playstyles (typically tied to weapons) alongside difficult enemies and bosses and a cryptic storyline. This is typically done in a 3d environment. There is still debate if Hollow Knight counts as a Souls-like or not. The only definition is that the game resembles Soulsborne games in some capacity.

Soulsborne: Refers to the "Souls" games (Demon's Souls, and Dark Souls 1 2 & 3) as well as Bloodborne. Elden Ring is considered to be a Soulsborne game due to it being a spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series, itself a spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. Some people may include non-Soulsborne games also by From-software that share some similarities to Soulsborne games into the definition. This is namely done with Sekiro but may also include Armor Core and King's Field. This is controversial however. King's Field, while a spiritual predecessor to Demon's Souls, is more often group with "King's Field likes" that include Lunacid, Devil Spire, Slasher's Keep, & Hand of Doom.

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normiesaw man

that's retarded, that'd mean nier automata is a soulslike (it even has heckin corpse runs!!!)

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Action-RPG where gold and EXP are dropped on death and can be picked back up.

Define "Soulslike"

action game with iframes

DMC, Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, etc all have i-frames dipshit

The term used to mean that a game took inspiration from demon souls and was trying to be "like" it by putting in a bunch of mechanics that were in the game. Nowadays the term is so fucking overused and meaningless that you can have a bunch of games that play widely different be called souls likes because they have a bonfire or some other minor shit from the Dark souls games. An action RPG (Dark souls), third person looter shooter (Remnant), 2d metroidvania (Hollow knight) and a metal gear rising wannabe (Sekiro) are all apparently souls likes to the average normie because they share some minor mechanics with the dark souls games.

see? the definition works...

and a metal gear rising wannabe (Sekiro)

you almost made a decent point and then you fumbled it at the end, sad

aspects include a combat system centered around non interruptable attack animations, an iframe dodge and a parry, real time healing and a focus on fighting difficult bosses as well as rpg elements and cryptic narratives

Kingdom Hearts?