DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition overview

Overview

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition comes from FromSoftware, Inc. and is published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It arrived on Steam on Aug 24, 2012, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, and Xbox so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 166 players at 12 September 2026 - 18:07:58 UTC, with a tracked peak near 270. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 92% positive across 78,454 reviews.

Language and system requirements

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition is available in 10 languages including:

7 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, oflc, and nzoflc

Sales, recommendations, and streams

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition has sold up to 3,600,000 units and has 52,820 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $41,500,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition overview details

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

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 oth…

SteamPulse editorial summary

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition is listed as a game with No longer available on Steam Store. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 166 players at 12 September 2026 - 18:07:58 UTC, a tracked peak of 270, and 92% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Souls-likeRPGDark FantasyDifficultActionExplorationLore-RichFantasyUnforgivingAdventureAtmosphericImmersiveThird PersonAction RPGAddictive

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