Games like Eldest Souls
If Eldest Souls is your kind of game, the closest matches are ABYSSAL BLADE, Immortal Planet and Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, cinematic and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Eldest Souls is a 2021 action RPG from Fallen Flag Studio that drops players into a dark fantasy world where a lone warrior wields a greatsword of pure Obsydian against the Old Gods who have unleashed a great Desolation upon mankind. The game presents a boss-rush structure with challenging combat encounters that reviewers describe as tense and cinematic, where players must learn distinct telegraphed attack patterns and adapt their fighting styles to each deity's unique phases. The solo experience offers ability respec between fights, and a new-game-plus mode adds replay value according to players. Priced at $19.99 USD and verified on Steam Deck, the game received a 76 Metacritic score and holds a 77% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews.
About Eldest Souls: Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
Players who liked Eldest Souls also play
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ABYSSAL BLADE
WHY THIS
Shares attack telegraphing, new game plus and a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Top pick for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
ABYSSAL BLADE is a pixel-art boss rush inspired by MMO raid mechanics. With only 1 HP, take up your blade and challenge the five stages of grief.
Immortal Planet
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Second-strongest match for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Immortal Planet is an action RPG with challenging combat that rewards patience and punishes recklessness. Explore the crumbling remains of a society of immortals trapped in endless cycles of rebirth. Fight your way to discover the planet's mystery and escape its curse.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Perennial Order
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Ranked #4 for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldest Souls.
Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush with challenging one-hit-death combat. Set in an atmospheric Dark Age world plagued by nature-infested horrors, explore a lore-filled and eldritch land alone or in two player co-op, all in a realistic painterly style.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Ranked #6 for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Eldest Souls.
Plunge into a dark fantasy Action-RPG, harnessing powerful magic alongside a satisfying combat system. When the tyrannical god, Adyr, invades the human realm seeking vengeance for his imprisonment, humanity calls upon an unlikely defender… a convicted sinner named Harkyn.
NanoApostle
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Eldest Souls.
Ranked #7 for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
NanoApostle is a dark sci-fi boss rush action game featuring intense reaction-based combat and the unique "Destruction Point" system. Play as Anita, a child augmented with lethal nanomachines, as she battles against twisted cybernetic experiments to escape a top-secret facility.
The First Berserker: Khazan
WHY THIS
Shares new game plus and a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Ranked #8 for Eldest Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldest Souls.
The First Berserker: Khazan is a hardcore action role-playing game. The player will become Khazan, the great general of the Pell Los Empire, who overcame death, and sets out to reveal the incidents that led to his downfall and seek vengeance on his enemies.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Eldest Souls
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Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Eldest Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Titan Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Eldest Souls.
Reviewers of Eldest Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Reviewers of Eldest Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Eldest Souls.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Reviewers of Eldest Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldest Souls.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Eldest Souls at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Eldest Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eldest Souls.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Eldest Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Eldest Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action with Eldest Souls.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Eldest Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Eldest Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Eldest Souls.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eldest Souls.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldest Souls.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eldest Souls.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Eldest Souls.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eldest Souls.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
ABYSSAL BLADE
WHY THIS
Shares attack telegraphing, new game plus and a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
ABYSSAL BLADE is a pixel-art boss rush inspired by MMO raid mechanics. With only 1 HP, take up your blade and challenge the five stages of grief.
Immortal Planet
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Immortal Planet is an action RPG with challenging combat that rewards patience and punishes recklessness. Explore the crumbling remains of a society of immortals trapped in endless cycles of rebirth. Fight your way to discover the planet's mystery and escape its curse.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Perennial Order
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldest Souls.
Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush with challenging one-hit-death combat. Set in an atmospheric Dark Age world plagued by nature-infested horrors, explore a lore-filled and eldritch land alone or in two player co-op, all in a realistic painterly style.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Eldest Souls.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
The First Berserker: Khazan
WHY THIS
Shares new game plus and a challenging mood with Eldest Souls.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldest Souls.
The First Berserker: Khazan is a hardcore action role-playing game. The player will become Khazan, the great general of the Pell Los Empire, who overcame death, and sets out to reveal the incidents that led to his downfall and seek vengeance on his enemies.
Frequently asked about Eldest Souls
- Is Eldest Souls verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Eldest Souls is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Eldest Souls cost?
- Eldest Souls is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Eldest Souls?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eldest Souls are ABYSSAL BLADE, Immortal Planet, Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms.
- Who developed Eldest Souls?
- Eldest Souls was developed by Fallen Flag Studio and published by United Label, CI Games.
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