DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition

FromSoftware, Inc. · August 24, 2012 · Souls-like, RPG, Difficult, Dark Fantasy, Action

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DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition costs £266.14 in the United Kingdom, €318.66 in Europe (EUR), $352.09 in the United States, $352.09 in Georgia (USD), zł1403.54 in Poland and R$1986.56 in Brazil right now.

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United Kingdom £266.14 — £266.14 3
Europe (EUR) €318.66 — €318.66 5
United Statesyour region $352.09 — $352.09 5
Georgia (USD) $352.09 — $352.09 5
Poland zł1403.54 — zł1403.54 2
Brazil R$1986.56 — R$1986.56 1

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About DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition

✦ AI summary

Journey back to Lordran's past and uncover the untold story of Knight Artorias while battling brutal new bosses across haunting new areas in this challenging expansion that adds PVP arenas and online matchmaking to Dark Souls' unforgiving combat. Master new weapons and armor forged from your fallen enemies as you learn to survive through death itself in a seamlessly interconnected world where only the most determined players will prevail.

New Content for PC
Dark Souls™: Prepare to Die™ Edition will include an untold chapter in the world of Lordran. Sent back to the past, player will discover the story when Knight Artorias still lives.
  • New Bosses – Including Black Dragon, Sanctuary Guardian, Artorias of the Abyss.
  • PVP Arena & Online Matchmaking System – Quick matching for players to play 1vs1, 2vs2 and 4 player battle royal.
  • New Areas – Including Oolacile Township, Oolacile Sanctuary, Royal Wood, Battle of Stoicism which is the training ground for online PVP battles.
  • New Enemies – Including Wooden scarecrows, Chained Prisoner, Stone Knight.
  • New NPCs – Including Hawkeye Gough, Elizabeth (keeper of the sanctuary).
  • New Weapons and Armor – Equip some from the new bosses, enemies, and NPCs

The Story


Dark Souls is the new action role-playing game from the developers who brought you Demon’s Souls, FromSoftware. Dark Souls will have many familiar features: A dark fantasy universe, tense dungeon crawling, fearsome enemy encounters and unique online interactions. Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demon’s, not a sequel. Prepare for a new, despair-inducing world, with a vast, fully-explorable horizon and vertically-oriented landforms. Prepare for a new, mysterious story, centered around the the world of Lodran, but most of all, prepare to die. You will face countless murderous traps, countless darkly grotesque mobs and several gargantuan, supremely powerful demons and dragons bosses. You must learn from death to persist through this unforgiving world. And you aren’t alone. Dark Souls allows the spirits of other players to show up in your world, so you can learn from their deaths and they can learn from yours. You can also summon players into your world to co-op adventure, or invade other's worlds to PVP battle. New to Dark Souls are Bonfires, which serve as check points as you fight your way through this epic adventure. While rested at Bonfires, your health and magic replenish but at a cost, all mobs respawn. Beware: There is no place in Dark Souls that is truly safe. With days of game play and an even more punishing difficulty level, Dark Souls will be the most deeply challenging game you play this year. Can you live through a million deaths and earn your legacy?

Key Features:

  • Extremely Deep, Dark & Difficult – Unforgiving in its punishment, yet rewarding for the determined – learn to strategize freely and conquer seemingly impossible challenges.
  • Fully Seamless World – Explore a completely integrated world of dark fantasy where dungeons and areas are seamlessly intertwined, with great height.
  • Mastery Earns Progression – Contains 60 hours of gameplay, with nearly 100 uniquely despair-inducing monsters & an incredibly nuanced RPG systems including: weaponry, armor, miracles, faith, and more. Player success depends on their eventual mastery of how and when to use the magic spells, choice of armor, the number of weapons, the types of weapons, and the moves attached to the weapons.
  • Network Play – Players may cross paths with one another, invading each other for PVP battles, or to play co-op and take on giant boss encounters as a team.
  • Flexible Character Development & Role Play – As the player progresses, they must carefully choose which of their character’s abilities to enhance as this will determine their progression style.
  • Community – See other real players and empathize with their journey, learn from seeing how others died, find and leave messages for your fellow players; helping them or leading them into death.
  • Symbolic of Life & Hope – The Bonfire is an important feature in Dark Souls for many reasons. Though in gameplay it serves as a health and magic recovery and a progression check point, it also happens to be the one place in the dark world where players can find a fleeting moment of warmth and calm.

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player, Multiplayer
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition in the rankings

What Steam players say

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Recommended Sep 28, 2026
why this isn't on the store and DS:R slop is... sad state of affairs
Not recommended Sep 28, 2026
this game sucks, I suck at the game but that's not the point
Not recommended Sep 28, 2026
I'm going to complete it, but this is such an unoptimized port it's ridiculous lol
Not recommended Sep 27, 2026
Maybe a gem at the time but such a slog game to go through. So sluggish and horrible hitboxes. Compared to the games that come after Jesus Christ, its crazy how much better movement makes the game feel. At least i now know what it feels like to walk through sludge while blind, with arms and legs missing.
Recommended Sep 27, 2026
TUNG TUNG TUNG TUNG
Recommended Sep 27, 2026
great game even in 2026

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