Edit: Please note that being subscribed to the community is a hard requirement to enter! Your comment will not be counted as an entry if you aren’t subscribed.

Hey guys! As another little thank you to the community, I would like to give back to the community: I’m giving away a number of soulslikes and soulslike-adjacent titles (PC).

Here is what you can win (a choice of one per tier):

Tier 1 (1x winner):

  • Lies of P (code)
  • Enotria (code)
  • Hollow Knight (code)
  • Remnant 2 (code)

Tier 2 (2x winners):

  • The Surge 1 & 2 Dual Pack (code)
  • TUNIC (code)
  • Code Vein Deluxe Edition (code)
  • Ashen (code)
  • Steel Rising (code)
  • Nioh 1: Complete Edition (code)

Tier 3 (3x winners):

  • Blasphemous (code)
  • Blasphemous 2 (code)
  • Death’s Door (code)
  • Curse of the Dead Gods (Steam Gift)
  • Tails of Iron (Steam Gift)
  • Eldest Souls (Steam Gift)

All of these games are amazing and worth an entry if you haven’t played one of them for sure! Lies of P is definitely the standout here since it’s a very quality soulslike that can compete with the big FromSoft titles easily.

The giveaway will be open from when the post is live on 17th July 2026 to Wednesday 22nd July 10 pm CET.

What you need to do to participate:

  • Post a comment here. It can be anything you want. Have you heard of the games? Why would you like to play them? Anything, really.

  • You need to be subscribed to the community at the time of entering the giveaway (no minimum amount of time being subscribed).

  • You don’t need to be a Lemmy.Zip user. However, your account needs to have been created a day before this giveaway goes live (ie. on 16th July, roughly 24h ago).

  • You need to have a Steam account and be fine with adding me on Steam, so I can gift the game to you. Alternatively, you need to keep an eye on your DMs, so I can send you a key where applicable.

  • After the giveaway ends, ie. around 10 pm CET on 22nd July, please check the post again and be in your DMs if you’re pulled as a winner.

  • No regional restrictions.

Here’s how the giveaway works:

The giveaway will be handled by Zippy Bot ie. the winners will be pulled automatically. This means that at the end of the giveaway, I will lock the thread and Zippy will pull six random entries as winners. The six winners will be given a choice of a game from the specific category their name is pulled for (from top to bottom in order of names pulled).

Should you have your name pulled for a category in which you already have all the games, where applicable, you may get a game from another category, granted it is from a lower-tier category.

That should be all. Good luck to everyone!

    • Druid@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      It depends on what you’d like your entry-point to be, what platforms you’re playing on, and what your budget is. Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 come to mind for being sorta beginner-friendly, but they’re a bit on the more expensive side of games if you go for a PC copy vs. a used physical console copy.

      Elden Ring has a huge open world that allows you to tackle whatever challenges you may face in, more or less, any order you prefer. It can ramp up in difficulty quite a lot later on; however, the game also allows you to farm materials for upgrades and runes for level-ups, so you can keep up with the rising challenge of the game. It’s got an excellent expansion that many fans love a lot. It’s the soulslike that introduced a lot of fans to the series. Many started here and branched off into other directions: either starting from the beginning in chronological order, or picking games based on the mechanics they liked the most from Elden Ring.

      Of the three Dark Souls games, DS3 is probably the easiest to get into. The pace of the game compared to the first two is a lot faster, so you need to get used to playing more aggressive and to dodge and block efficiently to not get killed in bossfights a lot. But overall, it’s probably easier than DS1 or 2 because it’s more modern and has a lot of QoL changes that make the game flow better.

      DS1 is a lot easier in terms of combat, but the game is also a lot jankier and has a lot of obtuse mechanics that are not explained very well. It’s still worth a shot if you can get a copy for cheap. DS2 is probably not a good first soulslike.

      Lies of P is probably also a good first soulslike since it has difficulty options to choose from. That way, should the game get too difficult for you, you can adjust the difficulty and have an easier time progressing. Some people aren’t fans of this since you “don’t learn to adjust to the difficulty of the game”, but that’s nonsense imho. Play whatever way suits you and just have a good time.

      Additionally, LoP has a lot of cool mechanics mixed into one tight package. Parrying for people who like Sekiro, dodging and weaving for people who like Bloodborne or DS3, self-contained levels with branching paths and clever level design for people who like the DS series.

      Those are a couple recommendations I could give you off the top of my head. There’s also a lot of other games I could recommend based on what games you usually play. For example, if you like shooters, you might like Remnant. Or if you prefer a ligther experience both in tone as well as in difficulty, Another Crab’s Treasure might be worth a look. :)

      • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 months ago

        Thank you for your detailed response!

        Yes I remember playing dark souls 2 as my first dark souls game ever, back in 2017. I played around 3 hours and have never played another dark souls like game since then haha.

        But as I can tell, it was probably the worst place to start. I’ll definitely give some of the other games a chance, and see if I can get into them!