Is Demon's Souls Hard? Difficulty Rating 7.9/10

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Is Demon's Souls Hard? Difficulty Rating 7.9/10 | HDII

Demon's Souls

Full Release (2009)

DIFFICULTY

7.9/10

Quite Difficult

(28 ratings)

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Difficulty Summary

Players rate Demon's Souls as clearly challenging, with mechanics and encounters that demand patience and consistency.

Why Players Find It Difficult

Players often find this game difficult because of several demanding mechanics:

Punishing enemy and boss encounters that require pattern recognition
High penalty for mistakes, often resetting significant progress
Combat demands precision timing rather than raw stat power
Tight movement and timing requirements throughout

Who Will Find It Difficult

Demon's Souls will push beginners and may still frustrate experienced players in certain sections. Players comfortable with similarly demanding games will have the best time here. Players who rated games like Dark Souls, Dark Souls III, and Celeste at a similar challenge level may find Demon's Souls broadly comparable in difficulty.

21 ratings

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Based on 28 ratings on Normal/Default difficulty, the average score is 7.9/10. Most players rated this game between 7 and 8.

Developer(s)

SCE Japan Studio, FromSoftware

Publisher(s)

Atlus, Namco Bandai Games

Genre(s)

Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Platform(s)

PlayStation 3

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About Demon's Souls

A third-person action RPG with cooperative and competitive multiplayer elements in which the player enters the kingdom of Boletaria as it is being ravaged by a fog that spawns murderous demons. The player has to hunt down the arch demons situated in five disparate areas within the kingdom and partake in punishing combat to reach the Old One, the vengeful being that brought the fog to Boletaria.

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