A souls-like must have a couple of the following:

1. video game where the difficulty can be incorporated into the player’s identity.

2. a conspiracy between monitor and controller manufacturers

3. Difficulty modes are forbidden.

4. has an easy mode called “magic build”

5. Story, narrative, and plot are all forbidden. The player can learn about the world, but cannot affect it.

6. Sekiro is the best one.

WotR is Soulslike?

Custer’s Revenge is a soulslike.

It’s not that Souls-Likes are hard, it’s just death is a mechanic in them. We traditionally associate a death screen as a loss, in that sense you have to redo a section of a game with no additional reward. But in Souls-Like games, death resets the enemies but you can get your lost experience back on top of the newly acquired one. This means that at some point the section should become trivial because you’re potentially over-leveled. A Souls-Like can kill the player fast because the return to the point oft death is also fast and rewarding.

That’s in my opinion is what makes a Souls-Like a Souls-Like, it’s that gameplay is paced with player death in mind.

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Big vampire milkers, so Resident Evil 8 is souslike, got it

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It’s not a soulslike unless it comes from a Souls region of gamedev, otherwise it’s just sparkling masochism

What are you smoking my friend

Ackshually Souls like is when right hand left hand slots and lock on.

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Soul like is when you can light cozy camp fire

Can I have the vampire milkers simp class?

Soulslike is when roll to dodge

Soulslike is when game like souls.

If game not like souls, game not soulslike