Dark Souls III
Dark Souls III is an action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Released in March 2016, it is the fourth entry in the Souls series and the final instalment…
Dark Souls III is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 24 March 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 51.5 hrs to finish.
What Dark Souls III is
Dark Souls III is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2016. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the Kingdom of Lothric, a bell has rung to signal that the First Flame, responsible for maintaining the Age of Fire, is dying out. As has happened many times before, the coming of the Age of Dark produces the undead: cursed beings that rise after death. The Age of Fire can be prolonged by linking the fire, a ritual in which great lords and heroes sacrifice their souls to rekindle the First Flame. However, Prince Lothric, the chosen linker for this age, abandoned his duty and decided to watch the flame die from afar. The bell is the last hope for the Age of Fire, resurrecting previous Lords of Cinder (heroes who linked the flame in past ages) to attempt to link the fire again…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 6 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 43 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Dark Souls series
Dark Souls III is the 15th of 25 entries we hold in the Dark Souls series. The next entry was Dark Souls III: Deluxe Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 86 is almost exactly the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Dark Souls at 91.
How it was received
Dark Souls III holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 2,003 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 51.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 106 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD® FX-6300, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Russia is the cheapest region we track at ₽2,399.00 (about $28.58), while Germany pays €59.99 — 2.3 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 60 on Steam, which is about $59.99.
What it launched against
Dark Souls III launched on 24 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank and Quantum Break. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank, Quantum Break.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dark Souls III yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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