Dark Souls II

First Souls entry built for a mass audience, spreading the bonfire loop to a wider market.

Released 2014 Developer FromSoftware Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment Platform PlayStation 3 Genre Action RPG Era Digital storefronts & indie

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Dark Souls II inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

New Game Plus ~~1995~~Asynchronous Invasion & Messages ~~2009~~Stamina Action Economy ~~2009~~Poise and Stagger Break ~~2009~~Bonfire Checkpoint & Currency Risk ~~2011~~

The Souls series in this dataset

2009

Demon's Souls ~~2009~~

2011

Dark Souls ~~2011~~

2014

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