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Industry Fatigue Grows Over the Term Soulslike
eurogamer.netopinioncautiousSep 8, 2025
The term 'Soulslike' has become overused and redundant as a lazy marketing shorthand, applied to games that don't meaningfully share Dark Souls' core design philosophy, creating fatigue and stifling genuine genre innovation.
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