Ranking the Souls Games

Title: Ranking Every Souls Game from Worst to Best including Elden Ring
This is a re-upload of a previous video that got a copyright strike. See pinned comment for details.
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I'm BacklogBaldie and Welcome to my channel!
From the foul depths of Blighttown, to the shiny highs of Anor Londo, and the farthest reaches of the Lands Between, the FromSoftware catalogue (Dark Souls Trilogy, Bloodborne, Demon's Souls, Sekiro and Elden Ring) has challenged everything we thought we knew about gaming, and through punishing but fair gameplay, has pushed gamers to a level of satisfaction that is rarely, if ever, experienced in other videogame genres.
With the release of Elden Ring, many people (including myself), got their first real taste of the soulsborne genre, and continued on to try the rest of the games.
Now I'm over a year into my Soulsborne journey, I'd like to share with you my personal ranking of these games, which changed 3 times whilst creating this video, and will probably change again tomorrow.
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0:00 Intro
1:00 7
2:06 6
3:40 5
5:07 4
6:53 3
8:48 2
10:23 1
12:43 Closing Thoughts
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A brand new video will be with you same time next week, and we'll be looking at Hogwarts Legacy.

[@backlogbaldie]

*Re-upload of a previous video* The original version of this video received a copyright strike, so please enjoy this updated version that won't give royalties to one of the Avengers composers! I trimmed some stuff out, changed some things around, tightened up the audio and generally changed enough so I don't feel *too* bad about uploading an old video again. I definitely want to do another souls ranking as these opinions are 6 months old now, and I've changed my mind a lot since then. Maybe I'll do the next ranking by difficulty, but not until I've replayed them all….so that'll probably be a while 😉 A brand new video on Hogwarts Legacy will be with you next week at the same time. Until then, have a good one!

[@jasonbelcho8609]

demon souls over dark souls 1 and sekiro is insane

[@jamielining6190]

Your Soulsborne journey sounds similar to mine. Started with DS PS5 Remake, was hooked. Then ER, BB, DS3, Sekiro. Currently playing DS1 and then DS2

[@exquisitemeat5845]

Pretty good list. I have a hard time ranking the original Dark Souls. Personally, the level design alone makes it impeccable, but unfortunately the age and the combat leave a bit to be desired.

[@backlogbaldie]

Truth! I changed my mind so many times whilst cutting the footage 😂

[@dannyp2143]

Cool vid. Subscribed. I'm playing Bloodborne now. Dark souls next 😊

[@backlogbaldie]

Welcome aboard 😊

[@kaiderhai86]

1.Dark Souls 2 2.Elden Ring 3.Sekiro 4.Bloodborne 5.Dark Souls 3 6.Dark Souls 1 7.Demon Souls Thats my order. That being said, Dark Souls 2 was my first Souls of course. The order one plays the games naturally influences every ranking.

[@backlogbaldie]

You never forget your first

[@kaiderhai86]

@backlogbaldie true. I still think I wouldn't like Demon Souls that much, if it would have been my first. The only one I was disappointed with.

[@travisbewley7084]

I also think of you play DS1 first it sets you up to play DS2 poorly and makes people feel it's unfair when the game is just asking you to play differently. DS2 was my favorite for a long long time, only unseated by Elden Ring but I still think it's such an amazing game.

[@Azkhalon]

I really want to play these games one day! I did enjoy Elden Ring for the little bit of it I did play, but it’s so hard for me to do so because the older I get the worse my reflexes are!!! lol! Great video as always buddy!!!

[@backlogbaldie]

Watch this space buddy, I’ve just written a script with you in mind. Will let you know when it’s time 😉

[@Azkhalon]

@@backlogbaldie will do! Sounds good!

[@zaddyzeeseburgnutz]

Bloodborne should've been #1, ER is yet another open world with a unique setting it's nothing new. Also BB has an unofficial 60fps patch that's really good.

[@sneaky5141]

as a die hard fromsoft fan i am firmly of the belief they are all worthwhile unique experiences you could rank them in absolutely any order and i wouldnt be able to disagree with you with a degree of dishonesty im just here to hear another unique take on the entries tbh

[@backlogbaldie]

Pretty much exactly how I feel watching these lists tbh 😂

[@sneaky5141]

@@backlogbaldie i meant without a degree of dishonesty but yeah ranking sekiro that low was a brave one for the comments section ferals lmao

[@DonovanGG__]

Bro if someone puts Demons Souls or Dark Souls 2 at #1 I would question that a bit

[@sneaky5141]

@@DonovanGG__ why? theyre both fantastic games. i dont subscribe to the dark souls 2 bad crowd, the latter half of dark souls 1 is far worse than the lows of DS2 each of the games have highs and lows i would understand and accept any ranking tbh

[@DonovanGG__]

@@sneaky5141 nah Dark Souls 2 and Demons Souls dont reach the heights of any of the other games though. I never said Ds2 was bad, its great. All of these games are great.

[@lordazlan237]

Awesome - thanks. I also started at Elden Ring. I tried DS1 many years ago for 2 mins and gave up. In terms of accessibility and ease of play, what would be next after Elden Ring? Old man with little flexibility in old limbs. Like exploring and choosing my own style of play

[@backlogbaldie]

Probably dark souls 3. It's the closest one mechanically, tho nothing else has the same freedom and play style options of elden ring. Don't forget the erdtree dlc next month 😉

[@lordazlan237]

@@backlogbaldie Awesome thanks. It's on sale on Steam so will take a look. Look forward to your next videos

[@masson5775]

ds3 is probably the most accessible, it’s very linear and the levels aren’t hard, it’s mostly the bosses, which are so good in quality that it more than makes up for some of the difficulty (which is mostly on end game bosses, so not that much of a worry). The dlcs are also goated. Contrary to popular belief i would also say sekiro is not as hard as some people make it out to be. it was my first soulsborne (and maybe because of that very fact) i didn’t have a hard time with it, granted i didn’t have a hard time with any souls game later as well so you might have to try it out for yourself. what i would recommend for sekiro is to NOT play it as a souls game and be aggressive, and also you can “spam” the party button to push through the start of the game until you get more used to the mechanics, you’ll end up spamming a little bit even at the end game, it is what it is

[@lordazlan237]

@@masson5775 Thanks for posting. I tried Sekiro recently and started crying once I met the first mini boss. After a few days gave up on the game. I guess apart from Elden RIng these games are not for me. But will give your tip a chance as I would really like to explore the game

[@masson5775]

@@lordazlan237 don’t be afraid to look for tutorial on how to beat certain bosses/minibosses. i had a hard time at the start as well and just cheesed that chained ogre but the rest was great, so definetly try to find some tips before giving up if you want to see the rest of the game

[@ozera16]

My list would consist of 1- Elden ring 2- Bloodborne 3- dark souls 3 4- dark souls 5- demon souls 6- dark souls 2 I have not played Sekiro

[@backlogbaldie]

Good list! 👍

[@MarkerMurker]

My takeaway is that you really value freedom in these games

[@garbageguy2599]

DS2 is definitely an acquired taste. You got to really take your time with it and slowly work your way through each area. I got to say that example you used of the enemies swarming on you is very poor since only one or two will aggro at the same time and this encounter only goes to reinforce the idea of why its so important to go slowly through the game. Also your whole point on Sekiro is contradictory, if your going to say its not a souls game then just don't have it on the list.

[@randywatson1982]

ER was my first souls game. Haven't beat it yet but I just started on it a couple months ago. Don't have that much time to play but I'm loving the game so much. Faith and intelligence ftw!!!

[@backlogbaldie]

Haha yesss!! My first build ran faith and int too. Before they nerfed sword of night and flame 😂

[@Sargatas]

If only this game had more faith/int weapons...but it has literally one. From my experience str/int and str/faith weapons are most fun and powerful😁

[@albertmaris3188]

it feels a bit weird to do a ranking of souls like games and include sekiro if you are going to knock it for not being a souls like game. i agree that there are aspects of the game that are similar. but in its entirety its extremely different IMO. i feel like its ranking is a little pointless to include. otherwise I love the vid! agree a decent amount but disagreeing is also a big part of the fun! lots of love.

[@backlogbaldie]

It’s genuinely refreshing to read a polite disagreement. Glad you otherwise enjoyed 😊

[@SevenFromTheSins]

Bloodborne #1

[@TEEZY105]

Sekiro is objectively top 3 in series

[@yo_yo477]

genuinely the worst ranking list i’ve ever seen but great vid!

[@backlogbaldie]

I’ll take it 😂

[@Allanchan-nel]

Are you high? The worst ranking would have DS2 as #1

[@BlacklistedSoup]

7. Demon Souls 6. Dark Souls II 5. Sekiro 4. Dark Souls I 3. Dark Souls III 2. Bloodborne 1. Elden Ring Just my personal take, your list is great as well.

[@jonahvandermel]

I might switch Sekiro and Dark Souls 1 but otherwise that's my exact list

[@backlogbaldie]

Good list! I change my mind about this daily 😂

[@Sargatas]

I've finished DS3 a couple of days ago. And before that I played only elden ring. And since I've seen all the improved boss designs of elden ring DS3 felt like a joke. The only two bosses that took some time are Friede (because I respec'd into a very unsuccessful build instead of fighting as I did before) and demon prince (because I'm bad at gank fights in general and I hate that thing when they turn both melee and go endless spam mode or both range and cover half of the arena with poison mist; phase 2 is easy though). But even being not hard at all I liked most bossfights, especially the endgame ones. Elden Ring is a pinnacle of bossfights nowdays. And it's before DLC release. When DLC comes it could be easily the game of century.

[@gffg387]

Elden Ring is the best by far.

[@Gavin-dj3kn]

Cap

[@Voideadd]

My only complaint is the some of the ruins and such are very samey and in any other game that would be a big problem . But it is my 2nd personal favorite to sekiro

[@yo_yo477]

no

[@zaddyzeeseburgnutz]

Only because it's the latest in the series. The open world is so lame and the weapon art spam is worse than DkS3.

[@gffg387]

@@zaddyzeeseburgnutz You are a loser.