No modern video game series has been as influential as Dark Souls, which didn’t just inspire the design and philosophy of countless other titles, but created the entire Soulslike genre. But while other studios have tried to emulate the formula for years, no one has even come close to FromSoftware’s singular masterpiece: Bloodborne.
The blood-soaked streets of Yarnham remain one of the most chilling video game settings ever seen, and Bloodborne’s refinement of the Souls formula is so compelling that even FromSoftware’s more recent titles, like Sekiro and Elden Ring, haven’t surpassed it. The only downside is that Bloodborne has never broken out of its PlayStation 4 prison.
