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…

88 5 February 2009

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy Open world Sandbox

Demon's Souls is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 5 February 2009 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 38.5 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Demon's Souls is

Demon's Souls is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2009. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on PhyreEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Demon's Souls is set in a fictional dark fantasy world, taking part mostly in the southern medieval kingdom of Boletaria, that has been consumed by a thick, mysterious Fog that is creeping ever out to blanket the entire world. The Old One, a colossal immortal flying Demon, has been awoken and with it Demons have come forth to consume the souls of men. Only when The Old One is lulled back to eternal slumber will the fog dissipate and the world be restored.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Demon's Souls holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 408 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 38.5 hrs.

What it launched against

Demon's Souls launched on 5 February 2009, within three weeks of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2 and Flower. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2, Flower.

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