DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99.
- Length
- 29.2h
- Value
- $1.37/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460, 1 GB / Radeon HD 6870, 1 GB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was December 2019. 23 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 22 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, DARK SOULS™ II ($39.99, scores 72) and DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin ($39.99, scores 63) both come in lower.
84 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 3,369 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 29.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 68, 2.3 times as much.
8 years after release it still had 2.9K people in it at once.
The drop-off
97% start to 31% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
2,879 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Perfect game to play around the time when you have exams, or any other stressful situation that you might find yourself in, really. Angry that your studies are going wrong? Upset that your friends are ignoring you? Feeling like nothing else matters? Here's a boss you will attempt 46 times and that has a ridiculous runback, that should demonstrate you how much easier you have it than the chosen undead and maybe it...
Having already played Elden Ring and Sekiro, Dark Souls was definitely a different experience. The combat is slower and the overall playstyle took some time to get used to, especially coming from the newer FromSoftware games. But once I got into it, I really enjoyed it. The world is great, the story and lore are interesting, and even though some parts definitely feel a bit dated, the game still holds up surprisingly...
Sick asf game. First Souls game beaten! Hard but fair. You'll die alot for sure but it gives you the tools to conquer this beast just gotta realise yer mistakes and beat the challenge before you. Also did the DLC stuff as well, they're a good challenge from the base game and worth the investment but uh could yall made finding this DLC spot any more convulted? ♥♥♥ dude look this ♥♥♥♥ up. Anyway, banger game, go play...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/570940/dark-souls-remasteredThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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