With both games boasting single-player and multiplayer, Dark Souls and Remnant: From the Ashes stood out for their painstaking difficulty, among other reasons. From time to time, a game breaks through and establishes itself as a subgenre. Dark Souls belongs to a subgenre known as a Souls-likes, much like how Metroid and Castlevania spawned the Metroidvania subgenre.

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With both games being acclaimed and many players still grinding for EXP, it's hard not to notice the Dark Souls' and Remnant: From the Ashes' parallels. Let's take a look at two heavyweight action role-playing games. Could a game be better than the game it was inspired by?

10 Co-Op (Remnant: From The Ashes Is Better)

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While Dark Souls makes it overly complicated to start a co-op game, Remnant: From the Ashes is a game that encourages it. Remnant: From the Ashes' co-op is a drop-in system where players can join others from their video game console's guide menu. If you want to host, it's as easy as inviting other players to your game. The usage of specific items, which can be unlocked at a point in the game, makes Dark Souls co-op an intricate process. Remnant: From the Ashes takes this category for having seamless co-op.

9 Difficulty (Dark Souls Is Better)

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While Remnant: From the Ashes provides players with options for difficulty levels, Dark Souls limits players to one. The latter gives you options to join difficulty increasing covenants and wearing items like the Calamity Ring, which doubles the damage you receive from enemies.

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Despite Remnant: From the Ashes having more options for difficulties, Dark Souls tells you the definitive difficulty level. The game is memorable because of boss fights like Ornstein and Smough, giving Dark Souls an edge in this category.

8 Shock Appeal (Remnant: From The Ashes Is Better)

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Dark Souls is worldly renowned for its unforgiving gameplay, but the underdog Remnant: From the Ashes came out of seemingly nowhere. We never knew that a third-person shooter could utilize such challenging gameplay blended with a smart loot system. At every turn, it seems like Remnant: From the Ashes is giving a dose of shock value, and there's little reason not to love the game for that.

7 Combat (Dark Souls Is Better)

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It started with Demon's Souls and evolved into Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Dark Souls. The Souls-like subgenre has more polished gameplay than the standalone game Remnant: From the Ashes. Maybe if developer Gunfire Games decides to make multiple sequels, the combat will be as polished as Dark Souls. For now, Dark Souls has a superior combat system, one of the greatest for an RPG in years.

6 A Survival Focus (Remnant: From The Ashes Is Better)

While the two games are often compared to each other, Remnant: From the Ashes and Dark Souls differ in one big way. While Dark Souls is strictly an action role-playing game, Remnant: From the Ashes is also a game of survival. Remnant places you in inhospitable circumstances where you must defend against waves of enemies. Expect to encounter hordes of foes as you struggle to maintain a bar of health. This shift in gameplay adds a new dynamic, making Remnant: From the Ashes more exciting.

5 PVP (Dark Souls Is Better)

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The PVP (player versus player) of Dark Souls is a refined part of the game which pits the most experience Souls players against one another. Contrasting is Remnant: From the Ashes, which doesn't have a PVP mode. Dark Souls wins this category by default.

4 Appeals To Inexperienced Players (Remnant: From The Ashes Is Better)

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If you're getting into Remnant: From the Ashes for the first time, there are difficulty levels to choose from. There isn't an easy difficulty, but the Normal one provides a challenge for most players. Dark Souls, on the other hand, doesn't have difficulty modes, making it hard for introductory players to get immersed in the game. The lack of Dark Souls difficulty levels might deter some players, which is why Remnant: From the Ashes might be more appealing.

3 Replayability (Dark Souls Is Better)

Since Remnant: From the Ashes has multiple difficulty levels and procedurally generated maps, it might have superior replayability. However, Dark Souls has PVP, unique ways to increase the difficulty, and replayable boss fights through other players' worlds. There are a variety of collectibles that encourage players to backtrack in Dark Souls. Finding everything on the first playthrough is next to impossible, which is why a New Game Plus mode exists.

2 Story (Remnant: From The Ashes Is Better)

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Dark Souls' story might appeal to players because of its expansive lore, yet many others would say it's too convoluted. Understanding the development of Dark Souls is like trying to unravel a mystery. Although many appreciate the story's basics, the overarching story of the series is difficult to comprehend.

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Remnant: From The Ashes is a refreshing story after having to experience Dark Souls. It's about a wanderer in a post-apocalyptic world who sets out to defeat the Root by traveling to a tower on an island.

1 Loot System (Dark Souls Is Better)

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An effective loot system could be the defining quality of a video game. While the first Dark Souls had a less robust loot system, the sequels were game-changers. Item sets like the Black Iron, Solaire's Armor, and Ornstein's Set were memorable in appearance and because of their stat bonuses. Although Remnant: From the Ashes had a loot system, it falls short in comparison to an industry changer like Dark Souls.

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