Learn to Play: Dark Souls the Card Game 

@15:30 talking about spawning enemies... if there isn’t enough space in the row then you can place the enemy anywhere on the board.

Thank you so much. This was very helpful, instruction manuals are very confusing for me so seeing a video just like this helps!

I just bought this game 2 days ago, this really helped me to understand the rules, since i just quickly read them over without thinking too much. Thanks for the guide!

This is the BEST video I’ve seen yet to learn how to play. Thank you! ✌️😎✌️

Thank you! Great job explaining the game! This is so much easier trying to learn how to play the game then trying to read the instructions and figure it out.

Your tutorial for Dark Souls board game was excellent and really helped me learn the game. I'm not a Dark Soul video game fan at all but it's my favourite 'kill everything' dice chucker :) I've been thinking about getting this too because it apparently plays faster and is also soloable. I'll be watching this video and trying a copy with a friend to see which one I like more ☺

I'm half way through the first play and I love that game yet. Highly underrated. Thanks for the gelp

Thank you for making this video. My brother and I started the game for the first time and discovered how woefully inadequate the instructions are. We had no idea how many cards we were supposed to have in our hand and with a game that counts your cards as your life, it's kind of important! Another thing you should consider for future videos: if a game wants you to have a "starter deck", explain what that means bc it may be different per game or the game might not explain it properly to begin with (as was the case with this game).

Thank you. Just got my copy of the game and the rule book gives me a headache. It's so cryptic. Your explanation is easy to follow and examples are spot on!

Hi, great video. Only started now enjoying card games and. Just one question. I understand we can do all of the mentioned actions 1 time. But do we need to make them in order? In the rule book it doesn't specify. Can i attack then move then use my heroic hability?

Great tutorial! made learning the game very easy! Once again steamforged did a good job of capturing the essence of DS. I still really enjoy the board game but the card game was way easier to set up and clean up. Both provide a great experience

Thanks for this, my wife and I recently got this game and routinely get our asses kicked. By the time we beat Vordt, the bonfire is usually at 4 and that leaves us with very little time to tackle the other boss. I was convinced we were doing something wrong. I guess we just suck. Lol. By the way, we've found the assassin feels slightly underpowered compared to the other three characters. We've houseruled that the assassin can move diagonally provided there isn't anyone in the space, given that they're supposed to be nimble.

Very well done video. It was detailed, easy to follow and nicely presented. Thumbs up from me, keep up the good work!

Hi there :o can you MIX 2 player's decks at bonfire... or only mix inventory cards/cards bought at stamania marker? Like can I take out assassin's staminia and add it into sorcerers? ...I imagine no lol

Really good demonstration, thanks!!

As I can't find the answer anywhere, does condition damage ignore armor? I.E. if I inflict poison or frostbite on an enemy, and the enemy has 1 armor and 1 health. Would it kill the enemy when the poison/frostbite does its damage? Or is it soaked by the armor?

Can the other sets be played together with the original set or are they their own game

Very helpful! Great tutorial!

Thank you for your time well explained. 😀👍

I don't think you mentioned that if you use a bonefire you remove all encounter cleared tokens except for cleared bosses and have to clear them again and that after clearing an encounter you keep your current hand for the start of the next encounter.

Can you always redraw the whole hand after not having an attack (example: you use your attack after the first activation and then draw until you reach 6, but you only have stamina cards)

23:15 could the assassins move behind his teammates to attack one the in the back, since his teammates defeated the one in front?

It’s a good game. Very difficult

Excellent tutorial.

Great tutorial, thank you! Two questions: couldn't you have moved the assassin 1 tile left and attack from the bottom row? (enemies have to be in the same row as you, you don't have to be right in front of them as long as there's an empty space in front of you as far as I know). And the other question: shouldn't you remove the frostbite off of the Herald after it has been activated and the damage has been done? I know that the boss has a startingg effect that each character in the front row gets frostbite, but that is in the boss's phase.

I don't remember seeing anything in Dark Souls called "The Deeps". Is it a misspelling of "The Depths" from DS1 or "Cathedral of the Deep" from DS3?

so if the enemys attacks me can i use a quick attack that deals damage as an reaction to the enemys attack if i have the right amount of stamina and the weapon card? and if i am allowed to deal damage and the enemy gets destroid do i get the amount of damage the enemy deals? or can i only use block and dodge actions when an enemy attacks me?

The Talisman can heal other characters too?! Wish I knew that on my first attempt :D

Nice intro. I skipped a few chunks, but you explained parts better than anyone else did! The rule book really is terribly thought out... I think you didn’t spot you could have prevented damage by discard at one point instead of just discarding due to taking one point, but otherwise I think you did better than I managed.

thanks for everything bro

When Healing, is the order of placement of Cards important? If so, in what order are they placed?

Those cards are so close to looking quite nice

What if we have six cards in our hand at the end do we lose?

What does reanimated mean

Since the rule book says all attacks happen at once, does that mean you can dodge multiple attacks with one response?

Hello, when we eliminate a boss, we get the indicated souls? (4 + 4 souls + 2 transposed treasures), OR we simply get what is indicated on one side only (4 souls + 1 transposed treasure) ?? thank you

i got both games and i like them

During the player attack phase, how does the shield value work if 2 characters attack the same monster, given that they do not ignore the shield value? Does the shield deplete for the turn after the first attack or do you need to account for the shield on every attack? As example: the monster has 4 shield and 1 health, your characters can both attack, one for 2 damage and one for 3 damage. Is the monster dead if neither of the attacks ignored the shield?

So much better than reading the rulebook.

Wait, you can take more than one action per player turn as long as its a different action? 😮

This game is pretty sweet. To bad no one I play with likes it. 🙃 lucky it plays solo.

1 to 4 players

Very good guide, but in my opinion there is so many bad explanations in guide it makes game confusing. When you play it in single player it´s good idea to play for 2 characters, because with 1 only game is so punishing i.e. each normal enemy hit yuo everytime and you can´t hit them from everywhere, so small amount of weapons with low damage even for knight no way... bosses can jump between attacks and push you to sides that you are not able to withstand that. In two players there is usually harder or extra enemy only and bosses (like vordt) has +1 health only and you can plan how to attack him... like the game but for single player it´s not very well balanced. Or I´m doing something wrong, because lot of people writing game is soloable..... but if yuo look that vordt has10 life points min.... and basically yu have few weapons only.... even if you use 2 bonfires and get few better equipment you will loose. Played 3 games and everytime finished on vordt, once I was lucky and he was only 1 HP left..... :) Can normal treasure pack be modified in same way as players pack? so you can choose what you want in them? if yes even solo will be playable probably but read rules twice and nothing about it...

I think the game is somewhat poorly designed, mainly in that life deck area. All cards that go into your discard pile is basically damage. So if a monster is attacking you for 2 damage, and you spend 2 stamina to block it... you literally took 2 damage to prevent 2 damage. Or even worse, when you spend the equipment+stamina to perform a dodge... you took 2 damage to dodge an attack, thus completely eliminating the purpose of a dodge. Then when you attack, and you spend like 3 stamina to do 2 damage.. you just took 3 damage to deal 2 damage. Not to mention how this completely misses the theme of the actual video game, where taking damage is something you want to avoid at all costs. But here, attacking, blocking, item usage, and even dodge rolling deals damage to you. This is why we houseruled the game, where you get a smaller deck, BUT have two different discard piles... the 'used' and 'damage' discard pile. Cards that you use to attack, defend, pay costs go in the 'used' pile that when the deck runs out gets reshuffled to form a new draw deck, and whenever you take damage from monsters, you send those cards in the 'damage' pile. They cannot be retrieved normally, and require a usage of a healing item to get back. With a few more minor tweaks to keep the difficulty.