Souls Series

Console	Name	Release	Genre	Developer	Lucca's Notes
PS3	Dark Souls	2011	Action	FromSoftware	Prepare to die! A lot! Super-challenging ARPG combat and dungeon delving, successor to Demon's Souls
PS3	Dark Souls II	2014	Action	FromSoftware	More Dark Souls = more death
PS3	Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin	2015	Action	FromSoftware	Enhanced/remastered version of Dark Souls II with better AI
PS3	Demon's Souls	2009	Action	FromSoftware	Punishing ARPG gameplay, loads of dying, learning, and dying again - collective actions online shift the difficulty of the game as a whole
PS4	Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin	2015	Action	FromSoftware	See PS3
PS4	Dark Souls III	2016	Action	FromSoftware	See XBO
PS4	Dark Souls: Remastered	2018	Action	FromSoftware/QLOC	See XBO
PS5	Demon's Souls	2020	Action	FromSoftware/Bluepoint	Revitalizes the original Souls game, adding some handy item management QoL features; just as difficult as the original
Switch	Dark Souls: Remastered	2018	Action	FromSoftware	See XBO
Xbox 360	Dark Souls	2011	Action	FromSoftware	Spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, where multitudes learned to die and die again
Xbox 360	Dark Souls II	2014	Action	FromSoftware	Set in the same universe as the first game, with similarly punishing 3rd-person ARPG gameplay
Xbox 360	Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin	2015	Action	FromSoftware	The definitive edition of Dark Souls II
Xbox One	Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin	2015	Action	FromSoftware	See PS3
Xbox One	Dark Souls III	2016	Action	FromSoftware	More ways to die and keep dying; combat is overall more fluid than previous games, an MP-like system is introduced
Xbox One	Dark Souls: Remastered	2018	Action	FromSoftware/QLOC	Includes all DLC and some QoL improvements, but otherwise largely unchanged (besides visually)