Ive been playing Curse of the Dead Gods (from the giveaway- thanks again!). I’m currently through 3/3 of the first tier runs and 2/3 of the 2nd tier runs (then 3x3rd tier and 1x 4th tier from what i can tell without spoilers).

I’m having quite a bit of fun with it. It’s a roguelite that has some interesting combinations of your gear (weapons+relics) + curses (which are generally bad but some have bonuses in addition to the bad). Last run i did i had a relic that gives +1 constitution any time i was under 50% health when entering a new room, a claw weapon that scaled with constitution, a 2 relics that healed me 16% per room, and another relic that gave me 100% of damage taken as gold. So basically every room i was triggering traps to go down to 34% health and make several hundred free gold which in turn also scales my weapon. My claw weapon was doing 50 damage per strike and shredded enemies. I almost beat the 2nd boss of that stage no-hit on my first attempt because it was such a strong combo lol.

Nightmares

I completely forgot this game was a thing. But not planning on buying a switch2 for one game

Would love Lies of P. Saw a bit of a boss fight on a stream and it seemed right up my alley. Haven’t heard of a lot of those though

Since you say you’re pretty lore oriented then i would start with DS1. It holds up. If you were just meh on lore then id say dive in with DS3 since that’s my favorite fromsoft game