Dark Souls Remastered

My favorite souls game

This is one of the most influential video games of the 20-tens. It's macabre, chilling, ghastly, and very challenging. The combat is visceral and brutal ... and sometimes painfully plodding. Every move counts; there are no trash enemies. When you die, it sucks, when you succeed, you revel. Its filled with secrets and obtuse lore, and countless weapons for your experimentation. You can truly sculpt your character's stats, taking on the game however you prefer. It's not perfect though; it's old fashioned and clunky in many respects. The weapon and armor leveling system is unforgiving and grindy, and it's likely you'll just stick with your trusty long sword instead of investing time and resources into whatever new shiny trophy you picked up after killing a boss. If you're at all interested in action-RPGs, you must play Dark Souls--though I'd start with DS3 first.