This game is Darksiders 4 change my mind.

[Sesoni]

Souls-like game? lol no. It plays nothing like a Souls game. Having hard bosses and the ability to dodge does not make something a Souls game. This is a Darksiders game through and through. They took everything that makes Darksiders 1, 2, and 3 great, and made a game with it and I'm here for it. It's a Narrative Driven, Action RPG Hack n Slash with plenty of hand-holding and turbo easy puzzles... just like Darksiders. You people calling this a souls-like are clowns.

[Kashra Fall]

First and foremost, souls like is a player created term that developers adapated to claim a game "Imitates" the style that demon souls brought to the table. What did demon souls bring to the table? Restrictive gameplay (Aka punishing level design, but littered with shortcuts.) Punishing gameplay, as in losing your currency on death and losing it permanently when dying on the retrieval attempt. Strong enemies, to which this game has a plethora of. Interesting bosses/designs, once more, the game has a ton of. And of course, let's not forget, good world design. Far as I can tell? It is a souls like.

Again though, that is a player made term. So call it dark siders if you like?

[Mecharion]

Soulslike:

Respawning enemys when dying.
You lose your level up resurces if you die twice without collecting them.
Very hard Bosses.
Checkpoint system without saves between.
You can level up several stats.

Looks pretty soulslike to me little rage baiter.

But i also agree it has a touch of Dark siders. Especially the art style.

[ZexxCrine]

Depends on if darksider 4 was the thing they teased to come out this year. If that’s still hapening

[Naamtar]

Mmmm I see it's midnight how best can I spend my time?

Ah yes, intentionally posting ♥♥♥♥ takes on the Steam forums, the wisest use of time anyone can make. I'm a genius.

[Sesoni]

The only thing souls-like about that game is that it stops being hard the moment you dump all of your points into strength and vitality and use the bonk weapon.

The enemies aren't any more challenging than enemies in Darksiders or other action RPG's. They didn't handle fighting multiple enemies very well, and that's where a lot of the difficulty comes from.

The level design isn't punishing, like, at all, and instead relies on gimmicks that can only get you once. Like the worms, or the platforms that break, resulting in insta death. They'll get you 1 time, and that's it.

The bosses are NOT very hard. You can pretty much avoid all the dmg a boss has to throw at you using their extremely forgiving parry and dodge windows.

Demon Souls wasn't even remotely close to being the first game to introduce checkpoints rather than allowing the player to save.

You can level up several stats? You mean just like you can in about every RPG ever?

As for respawning enemies and losing sh*t when you die? Losing progress? That's a rogue-lite game mechanic buddy.

No, souls-like is a player made term to describe games with the following. "ermergerd, game has bosses and is hard! Oh! and I have a dodge button!" They throw the term at so many games it's unreal. When the reality is that a souls-like is a game that actively emulates a Souls game experience, but with their own twist. Like Remnant, or Nioh, or Lies of P. Khazan just doesn't do that outside the very bonfirey checkpoints and resetting enemies.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game. I just think it's unfair to put souls-like anywhere near it when it plays nothing like a souls-like. You're better off calling Elden Ring an edgy Zelda ripoff, as that's more accurate than calling Khazan a souls-like.

[Mina]

ragebait clown with a private profile, dont give this idiot any clown awards, people like that dont deserve the points lol

and yes it incorporates all the soulslike criteria so its a soulslike, doesnt matter that each single mechanic is in other games, what matters is that all of them are in a single game at once.

saying that it plays nothing like a soulslike even though it exactly plays like a soulslike is just you lying. bait used to be believable. take care. idiot.

[HighLanderPony]

Played all DSiders games, this has nothing to do with them.

[mudcrab]

this is more like stardew valley

[BlackRock Saber]

kinda funny when people post about respawn of NPCs that been in games since the Atari days and before the Commodore 64 games. So no Souls-like is not the beginning of respawning of NPCs.

[Sesoni]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Played all DSiders games, this has nothing to do with them.

Stop lying lol. Ain't no way someone that played any of the Darksiders games, played Khazan and was like, "Nah, I don't see the resemblance."

Originally posted by Mina:

ragebait clown with a private profile, dont give this idiot any clown awards, people like that dont deserve the points lol

and yes it incorporates all the soulslike criteria so its a soulslike, doesnt matter that each single mechanic is in other games, what matters is that all of them are in a single game at once.

saying that it plays nothing like a soulslike even though it exactly plays like a soulslike is just you lying. bait used to be believable. take care. idiot.

Imagine not having your online stuff set to private like some boomer. I'll never understand the obsession you people have with having someone else's personal information and how not having somehow justifies something. You want photos of my kids and my SSN while you're at it?

[Sesoni]

Originally posted by BlackRock Saber:

kinda funny when people post about respawn of NPCs that been in games since the Atari days and before the Commodore 64 games. So no Souls-like is not the beginning of respawning of NPCs.

Dude they have Final Fantasy games tagged with Souls-like, it's f*cking insane. They have Hades tagged as a Souls-like. Like, wat?

That's how you know that the ONLY determining factor is that the game is "hard", has bosses, and has a f*cking dodge button. That's ALL a game needs to get the Souls-like tag. Like, is someone with even 2 brain cells to rub together going to sit here and tell me Hades even distantly resembles a souls game? No, because it's a classic, top down ARPG built like a rogue-lite. Like I said, absolute clowns, the lot of them.

[Retsubty]

IT'S A NIOH-LIKE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD XD

[Sesoni]

Originally posted by Retsubty:

IT'S A NIOH-LIKE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD XD

Nah man, it has a skill tree and you have an inner demon. It's clearly a DMC-like.

[Retsubty]

Originally posted by Sesoni:

Originally posted by Retsubty:

IT'S A NIOH-LIKE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD XD

Nah man, it has a skill tree and you have an inner demon. It's clearly a DMC-like.

it's a Nioh-Like at it's core with heavy heavy influence from character action games HARD AGREE.

But at its core it's a nioh like with the stamina management and the burst counters. But it has flashy cooldowns on top of that.

[Stall]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Played all DSiders games, this has nothing to do with them.

Its kinda like the third one but thats only because the Darksider devs tried to make it a souls-like game.