EVERY Souls Game Ranked EASIEST to HARDEST! 

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The first one you played is the most difficult.

"If you have beaten Sekiro that means you earned it" real talk

Sekiro was the steepest learning curve, but once you git gud you get really good and it’s such a joy to play.

I have played every Souls Game, even the original Demon's Souls on the Ps3, but never have I ever struggled that much on a game like on Sekiro. It was so satisfying to master the mechanics.

Spot on with the list. Sekiro definitely has the steepest learning curve of any game I have ever played. I was stuck on Genichiro for a week. Some 50+ deaths. lol. But once you get past him the rest of the game becomes easier. With each subsequent boss you suffer less and less deaths to learn them. Both father fights and both Isshin fights are super fun.

Elden Ring can either be the easiest game here or the hardest depending on how you want to go about it, to a certain degree.

My only complaint about Dark Souls 3 (it's my favorite of the souls series) is that the stat "vitality" exists I think Elden Ring did it right by getting rid of it and allowing endurance to raise your equip load like the original Dark Souls did.

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It's so difficult to be objective with these lists because how you perceive a game's difficulty changes so much over time. On my first playthrough of DS3 Nameless King probably took me around 30 attempts, I found it really tough and nearly gave up on it because it's an optional boss. A few years ago I did an SL1 playthrough of DS3 which really forces you to learn the game inside and out and it was incredible, my best experience in a Souls game hands down. This week I went back to DS3 to tidy up remaining achievements and get the 100% on Steam. To do this you have go all the way to the end of NG+2, requiring 3 fights vs Nameless King in total. In all 3 NG cycles I beat him without getting hit on my first try. My perspective of his boss difficulty has warped so much since the game released that I honestly don't know how to categorise it.

Love the fact you’ve been covering these games

One of the best videos I've seen on this topic, ever. Liked and subscribed

What I always find interesting about soulsborne games is that everyone has a different opinion on what games and what bosses are the hardest. I hear people often say they struggled immensely with bosses that I had no trouble with, but then I still have my own trouble with other bosses. I think it says a lot about the variety of play styles and strategies available, and I love it.

Fantastic list, and great arguments behind each placement that I really found myself agreeing with. This is pretty much exactly my own list, except I would swap DS3 and DS1.

I can completely agree with your stance on Sekiro. I got absolutely annihilated by every boss my first playthrough but now that I’ve beaten the game multiple times, even the hardest bosses in the game feel like pushovers. The learning process is rough for the game but it’s so satisfying to see all of your knowledge come together and help you!! One of FromSoft’s best and one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in recent memory

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What I loved about both Demon's Souls and Elden Ring is if you're stuck on one boss, there are always multiple other places you can be and other bosses you can try instead. The Dark Souls series and BB tend to have a very clear 'order' to the bosses, with only a few exceptions and if you're stuck at one, you just have to keep trying till you beat it, which can get frustrating

I haven't watched this yet, but I want to know if every game on this list was played without using a guide. It makes such a HUGE difference.

Ngl this video is so bang on its unreal. Everything you said from sekiro being the hardest because of the learning process more than anything, to ds3 having technically harder bosses than some but in actuality it’s easier because of the options available to kill them, are all absolutely right bro

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The difficulty of DS1 is on the level design, but the boss fights are easy, because of the limited move set

Something else about Dark Souls 2 that no one ever mentions is that Rings of Sacrifice are repairable. Pairing that with having 4 ring slots and death also carries no penalty once you have a few.

Getting a platinum trophy in Sekiro is one of my proudest gaming achievements

the sculpture idols being so close to the bosses in sekiro makes the difficulty curve far less frustrating than other games in the series

Bloodborne was my first of the Soulsborne series and I always find it interesting how it gets ranked on the difficulty meter. Me personally for the most part it's actually easy. Like all the games I've played so far; it seems to me once you figure out how the game works and where the good stuff is, you can break the game. And recently playing Dark Souls 2 & 1, I can see where the reception comes from. Like for the most part why people would go to Ds1 over Ds2

No idea why everyone thinks Bloodborne is so hard, I haven't played the dlc but base game Bloodborne is a joke and nothing outside the chalice dungeons could kill me more than 2 times on my first playthrough

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In Sekiro, I have to watch youtube guides many times to beat some bosses, but Owl father fight is very very satisfying when you memorised all the attack pattern.

Honestly, I agree with most of this list. The only thing I would probably change in my own list would be Bloodborne's positioning. I would have put it between DS1 and 3. The hardest part of base game was the very beginning, when I had to learn the combat. After Gascoigne, it was fairly smooth sailing for me, with most of the bosses being between 1 and 3 attempts for me. The DLC was a bit harder, but I don't think I would put it above DS3's DLC in difficulty for me.

It was pretty obvious that sekiro would be the top but my experience is a bit different. For me the hardest of these games was probably dark souls 3, out of all these games it was the one that took the longest to really pull me in. With Sekiro there was this "ah-ha" moment some three or four hours into the game that really gave me a good idea of what the game was about. And I think the reason why so many people see it as the most difficult fromsoft game is because they approach it like dark souls or Elden ring. In fact, it's almost like you have to relearn a lot of the combat mechanics, things that would help you in dark souls get punished heavily in Sekiro. For example in all the other dark souls games, you have stamina, whereas in Sekiro you don't. It's also much easier to reset fights because you can quickly retreat and get back into stealth. Then you learn about the flow of combat, that in most fights you should open with some sort of stealth strike and then push offense until the boss starts to deflect you at which point you switch into defense. There are bosses in the game that do kind of flip this on its head too which is cool but once you've got that flow down, it's just a matter of grinding things out. Imo, Sekiro is almost the easiest of all of these games once you understand what it wants from you. It's difficulty kind of reminds me of Celeste, both games are extremely difficult games that anybody can beat with enough perseverance and practice. It's why the game is much easier once you've already beaten it a single time, you already understand how you can push the rules of the game to your advantage and the RPG elements are so minor that most good players can beat the entire game without them.

I think I am the only person on the planet that finds Sekiro to be the easiest and Demon's Souls to be the hardest 😂.

Ds2 dlc was a fucking animal. Two tiger fight, great dragon fight, sir alonne, smelter demon 2, and fume knight.

Never played a souls game but always loved watching people play and the aesthetic. Just started Sekiro and I’m getting DECIMATED but I can’t put it down the challenge keeps me stuck to it! I keep replaying boss combos in my head lol it’s tricky but it’s the best feeling when u get that final deathblow 😂

I love how everytime one of these lists happens everyone debates all the entries except No. 1 where nobody disputes that it's Sekiro lol

That Orphan of Kos fight was stressful to watch

For months now, I regularly go back to Sekiro and fight The three inner versions of Genichiro, Father and Isshin in one session, just to stay sharp, even long after getting the platinum. Soo good. Demon of Hatred though is a hard pass.😅😅

Great list, you're right Demons Soul is the easiest however NG+ is probably the hardest NG+ out of the soulsborne. Your commentary on sekiro was spot as well. It was by far the hardest game on list when referring to 1st playthrough but after beating isshin and starting NG+ plus i was now a true Shinobi and i blasted through the game, there was no better feeling than beating isshin1st try 😂

Great video! For me, It’d probably be Demon Souls, DS2, Dark Souls, Blood Borne, Elden Ring, DS3, then sekiro. Elden Ring is tricky because it’s completely different with/without summons. I was a little upset with how easy I found Blood Borne because I think it’s too easy overall (after blood starved beast I think it gets easier). You should do a ranking based on platinum/trophy difficulty because it’s night and day differences between games

I played the Demon Souls remake and it has been one of my favorites mostly because of how unbelievably beautiful it looks. Blue Point created something special, now do Bloodborne!

Demons’ Souls definitely isn’t their first game in this style. It’s just the first to get popular. You can see the inspiration from King’s Field in these games.

I’m about to get my first ever Souls game experience with Elden Ring. Wish me luck 🤞🏻🍀

DS1 was real easy on my second run through the game. This was not the same feeling I had in Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring or Sekiro.

Bloodbourne was my first souls game. It toke a while for me to understand what a souls game supposed to be played.

Got platinum on Sekiro last week now I've got platinum in all the soul's games. Was not easy!

Hardest to traverse through the levels (including boss run backs) - DS2 - BY FAR Hardest Bosses - Maybe Sekiro all things considered Hardest overall from the perspective of a new player with ZERO online help (wikis - guides etc.) - DS1 and DS2. They are extremely chaotic. You can't even find weapons, upgrade materials or even the blacksmiths easily. RPG mechanics are a double edged sword in terms of difficulty. Personally, the hardest for me was DS1, which i played back in 2012 with no guides. Being in the depths CURSED with basically an unupgraded weapon was a nightmare and far harder than anything i played later. In DS3 for example, progression is right in front of you. Upgrade materials come in plenty and in your way, and everything you need is in the hub area. And of course difficulty is very subjective. EG. For me that i played all the previous games without a shield, Bloodborne was a cakewalk, since it was the same playstyle, but i felt 3 times as powerful, with the increased speed and the rallying system.

"If you beat Sekiro that means you earned it" 🔥✍️

Wow a souls video I actually completely agree with for once!

I played all souls and I had the biggest troubles when I first played demon souls after completing them all

Yeah Elden Ring is definitely the hardest one to rank lol. Depending on your build, it's either the hardest souls game, or the easiest one. You can literally kill bosses in a single hit with certain builds, or cheese them with almost no difficulty.

I would rank them differently, I think bloodborne with the parry is significantly easier, the easiest out of the top 4. my top 4: Sekiro, DS3, Elden ring (without spirit ash), bloodborne. I agree with the rest great list otherwise

Bloodbourne was my first souls game and i still feel that it's the hardest for me , i always come back to play it from time to time because it's my favorite and still struggle sometimes

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As somebody who played the games in this order: Sekiro -> Elden Ring -> DS1 -> DS3, I found the difficulty of DS3 to be way overstated and found DS1 to be significantly more difficult. DS1 does have a huge drop in difficulty after Anor Londo, but I won't forget how difficult the game felt from Capra Demon to O&S. Especially if you don't use any guides to help with locations like Sen's fortress. For the most part none of the regions in DS3 were difficult (fuck Ringed City tho), and every boss except Nameless King you could overcome by just rolling on reaction to their attacks.

It's true that you can make Elden Ring hard for yourself by not using tools the game offers you but with the same logic you can make any other Souls game hardest as well. But you can't make any other Souls game as easy as Elden Ring can be even if you try hard (ok, maybe except for the Demon's Souls magic build).

Simply the addition of the open world and omni directional rolling makes ER easier than ds1 and ds2.

Wow I'm amazed by individual differences in perception of difficulty. I've played every soulsborne including sekiro and I have to say I found demon's souls the most difficult one: it has the longest run back to bosses and those are also difficult areas. I kept losing souls. Also I needed to go farm herbs every two or three attempts.

no way dude is putting ds 3 higher than 1 and 2

1 thing that i dont think he directly mentioned for Sekiro is that the game rewards u being aggressive and the more u learn about how to play the more aggressive u can be. On a first playthrough u are likly to beat alot of bosses be almost completely depleting there hp, however the better u get that hp bar dosent mean mutch atall anymore and if u can keep up the aggressive playstyle u will beat bosses with half of there hp still remaining. Sekiro is also the only game where u actually start the game on easy mode and u can make it even harder in 2 ways. U have the Demon bell in the mountains that u can get to right after beating the Chained Ogre that makes enemys harder but is most noticable on bosses. U also got the option to give away Lord Kuro´s charm on a NG+ run or a fresh save after u beat the game once. That will make u take chip dmg if u miss time a deflect and end up blocking instead. If for some reson u think the game is getting easy then start up a fresh save and give Kuros charm back to him at the moonview tower and ring that Demon bell after beating the Chained Ogre. That small amount of chip dmg adds up really quick.

It’s interesting how different people view some of these games. I just finished bloodborne for the first time and it was a breeze. But I remember struggling so much with various DS2 & DS3 portions. I understand that is seen as backwards to many others. Great games regardless 👍

I think most of us forget just how much we struggled on our first game

great video, on point in my opinion !!! i was so bad in sekiro but managed it anyway to beat every hidden boss...somehow🤣🤣🤣

My first souls game… was also Elden Ring. I have no shame. It is a challenging game but definitely not the hardest. If you think of it as you can come back to any boss, it is easy. There are also op rune farms that get you hundreds of levels in a couple minutes. This game can even go in fourth or fifth, it just depends on your play style.

Plat sekiro and Bloodbourne was challenge that i love

Elden ring was my first souls game, just saw that sekiro is 50% off on Xbox and right when I get home from work I’m installing that and I’m excited to die a lot

Sekiro certainly has the steepest learning curve as you have to truly learn the mechanics and not simply overlevel or summon. That being said, once it clicks, it goes from being the hardest to one of the easiest. Dark Souls 2 is the true example of a team that did not understand the essence of a souls game. And what happens when Miyazaki is not involved. Elden Ring is absolutely brutal and the bosses hit like freight trains and can 1 shot you even if you have good armor and are at a decent level. I went back to DS3 afterwards and the damage output of enemies was was noticeable lower. I feel like Elden Rings bosses and some enemies damage output needed to be nurfed just slightly.

I think sekiro has been the hardest so far from the ones ive played for sure. Also nothing can replace the thrill of the mikiri counter.

4 days to beat Gwyn because I didn’t know I could parry him 4 to 6 hours to beat the last boss of OG Dark Souls 2 2 hours to beat the last boss of Dark Souls 3 3 hours to beat the last boss of bloodborne including the moon presence 4 Weeks to beat Inshin the sword Saint with no tools only deflect and reflect

Damn. Am I the only one feels that Demon soul is really hard? I’ve beat Bloodborne and Sekiro hundreds times but I didn’t even finish the first map of demon souls and I didn’t even want to continue. No check points from beginning to the boss is kinda nuts and stupid to me

It definitely depends on the person. I could only get past world 1.1 on Demon souls. I had a hard time with bloodborn, too. Elden Ring has been the easiest souls like game for me. I've been doing really well. Im almost level 80. Im loving it. It's probably one of my favorite games ever.

In the sense of using every tool you have sekiro being the hardest makes sense as the prosthetic tool can only take you so far. But sekiro really didn’t seem as challenging as I thought it would be watching others play

Most of these lists seem to always have BB and/or Sekiro at the top. Those are the two games I've played the most out of any Souls type games... I've played through BB probably 10+ times fully and countless other characters I've messed around with and when I finally got around to playing Sekiro, I liked it so much that I beat it four times in a row with different ending lol.

You should do soulslikes next. I wanna see how you feel about the likes of lies of p, lords of the fallen, mortal shell etc

i honestly hated constantly foraging for heals in demon souls so easiest could be switched with ds2 (bc of life gems)

Sekiro kicked my ass I never really got the hang of it. I beat it twice and never picked it up again

I tried playing DS1 when it came out and was so turned off by the lack of direction and how confusing it was. Got elden ring when it came out and was obsessed and put hundreds of hours into it and the game style just clicked. I’m trying to beat DS1 now and boy oh boy is it wayyyyy harder than Elden ring. Satiating but way more difficult.

Hey I had an idea about the shadow of the erdtree what if the shadow is a reference to the eclipse or what I really think is since the erdtree gives off most of the light maybe the eclipse needs to block out the light of the erdtree and that’s why they couldn’t get it to work at castle sol. there might be holes in this but just a thought

Sekiro was my third and definitely the most difficult for me

Yeah you nailed it

No sekiro sequel is the most grim criminal offense fromsoft has done in recent memory

I can go up to two hours without dying in ds1 and 2, but I constantly get bodied in Sekiro. It's brutal

I feel like part of the reason why Sekiro is seen as one of the hardest if not the hardest game is the fact that the combat is so much different from the rest of the fromsoftware games. the combat from Sekiro forces you to be aggressive at almost all times; while the rest of the games you go on the defensive and wait for an opening to strike. which is what I believe threw almost every person (a soul veteran or not) for a loop. Everyone was in the same boat, experience with the other games didn’t help you much when it came to sekiro.

I think you severely underestimate how much the lack of shortcuts, World Tendency, and the Soul Form health penalty impacts the difficulty of Demon's Souls. I would have placed it above DS1 AND DS2 in terms of difficulty for new players. Life gems are both way easier to get and more stackable than the grasses ever were, and DS1 is a pretty easy game by Souls standards IMO.

Dude said it was hard to die in demon souls. 😮

I just beat Sekiro today, took me about 2 weeks. I beat all the bosses (including the mini bosses and the secret demon of the hatred boss) and got the return ending. And it’s legitimately “get good or give up like a f****** coward!” And imo Sekiro is not a SoulsBorne but it’s a SoulsLike. Like Nioh 1 & 2.

Till this day. I have not been able to Solo Malenia

I have played all and beaten all except for Elden ring. The final boss in Sekiro actually took me about 5 hours to beat. The only boss to come close was The Nameless King.

I've been playing Bloodborne a lot. I finished it multiple times, I think I did everything there was to do. It was my first FS game, now I'm thinking which one to play next. I think i will try Sekiro or ER.

I have still yet to beat sekiro, but every few months I like to pretend it'll happen one day...

Oh.. DS2 had one DLC that had INSANE bosses. The one with the 3 NPCs was absurdly tough. That whole DLC was insane.

Maybe it’s because I beat Bloodborne over a dozen times now but I think that game is much easier than dark souls 1 and Elden Ring

Have you played lies of p?

I've platted all of them, and I gotta say, SUPER good list. Personally, I would switch bloodborne and ds1, but besides that perfect list imo

Armored core 6 first soulsborne game to truly kick my Ass

i find sekiro hard to master at the beggining, getting to gripes with the new deflecting system, but after that i found it quite easy, having a button that negates all damage makes it so much easier. That being said i had a harder time with most of bloodborne and the last few bosses of elden ring.

Where would you rank lies of p?

Elden Ring was a true journey. Great world design.

Weird, I had an easier time with Sekiro than with the souls series. Granted I still got my ass kicked and I haven't beaten Isshin yet, but overall the game just clicked for me and I was able to progress at a decent pace. With souls games I will get stuck on some bosses for days, and there's always a mental block I have to push through when starting the game up again.

Man I’m a first time soul player my wife got me Elden ring and I’m totally lost and suck. It discourages me but I really want to play it

I don't think I'm ever going to even try to play Sekiro, but am I crazy, or is that the best looking one, visually, by a wide, wide margin? Like, fair enough, Bloodborne and DS3 are older, but even Eldenring doesn't come close to how good Sekiro looks

I'd swap DS1 and DS3 because of the clunk of DS1 now, that's the hardest thing to overcome lol