Souls

The Souls franchise consists of games that are vague and dark. Demon's Souls is theorized to share a world/universe with the Dark souls games. The narrator in Demon's Souls mentions a fog that swept across the land, killing most of humanity. Dark souls features demons, fog, and the harvesting of souls. The developers wanted to make a Demon's Souls game for Xbox and PC but couldn't because Sony owned the IP. By making changes, including calling the next title Dark Souls, they were able to create a souls-sequel or spiritual successor for non-Sony platforms.

Note: Bloodborn, Sekiro : Shadows Die Twice, Elden Ring and other souls-like games by the same developer are not considered to be part of this franchise. When groped together with the "souls" games they are most often called "soulsborn".

• Demon's Souls is theorized to share a world/universe with the Dark souls games. The narrator in Demon's Souls mentions a fog that swept across the land, killing most of humanity. Dark souls features demons, fog, and the harvesting of souls.

• The developers wanted to make a Demon's Souls game for Xbox and PC but couldn't because Sony owned the IP. By making changes, including calling the next title Dark Souls, they were able to create a souls-sequel or spiritual successor for non-Sony platforms.

• The "Souls" series is considered a homage to the King's Field games and includes a re-curing reference in the form of the Moonlight Sword.

• A re-curing character called Patches may be a reference to Patch the Good Luck from Armored Core, another game by FromSoftware.