One-off purchase
Dark Souls cost to play
What Dark Souls: Remastered costs in the UK on Steam and the Nintendo eShop, its PEGI 16 rating and Steam player numbers.
Dark Souls gameplay, images and trailer
© Bandai Namco Entertainment, Dark Souls trailer “PTDE GamesCom” on Steam · Steam store page
The short version
- From £34.99: Cheapest standard price: Dark Souls: Remastered (Steam UK, standard price)
- One-off price: Bought once; no store currency or random items on this page
- 29 h to beat: Main story: 29 hours (HowLongToBeat)
- £1.21 an hour: £34.99 ÷ 29 hours (main story)
- 6,810 Steam peak: Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- PEGI 16: Age rating
- Released
- 22 September 2011
- Developer
- FromSoftware, Inc.
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Platforms
- PS3, PS4, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Age rating
- PEGI 16
- Genre
- Action RPG
- Modes
- Single-player, Multiplayer
On this page
Dark Souls player count
Concurrent players on Steam, from Steam Charts, read 28 Oct 2026.
- Peak, last 30 days
- 162
- Peak, Sept 2026
- 219
- 116 on average
- Change vs Aug 2026
- −4%
- monthly peak
- All-time peak
- 11,248
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Is Dark Souls dead?
Not dead, but small on Steam: Dark Souls peaked at 219 players at once in September 2026, with 116 playing at any moment on average. That is steady with the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
| Month | Average | Peak | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 116 | 219 | −3.9% |
| August 2026 | 117 | 228 | +11.2% |
| July 2026 | 110 | 205 | −0.5% |
| June 2026 | 114 | 206 | −2.4% |
| May 2026 | 123 | 211 | +3.9% |
| April 2026 | 110 | 203 | −1.0% |
| March 2026 | 101 | 205 | −18.3% |
| February 2026 | 126 | 251 | −3.1% |
| January 2026 | 137 | 259 | +17.2% |
| December 2025 | 126 | 221 | +4.7% |
| November 2025 | 109 | 211 | +13.4% |
| October 2025 | 98 | 186 | – |
What Dark Souls costs to play
| Item | Price | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Souls: Remastered (Steam UK, standard price) | £34.99 | game | store.steampowered.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
| Dark Souls: Remastered (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo eShop UK, standard price) | £34.99 | game | nintendo.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
How long is Dark Souls?
Dark Souls takes about 29 hours to finish the main story, and about 68.5 hours to complete everything.
- Main story29 h
- Main + extras44 h
- Completionist68.5 h
Cost per hour (main story)
£1.21
£34.99 on Steam UK ÷ 29 h
Source: HowLongToBeat, read 28 Oct 2026. Your time will vary with difficulty and play style.
How Dark Souls is rated
GamesChart Score
87.0, #55 of 3,236 rated games
#5 of 2011 · #31 of the 2010s · #23 in Role-playing (RPG) · #27 on Nintendo
Critics
Players
Built from 197,066 ratings across 5 of 5 sources. Critics and players count 50/50. Includes Dark Souls: Remastered (2018). Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #54
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom2023 · Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 387.1 - #55
Dark Souls2011 · FromSoftware87.0 - #56
Return of the Obra Dinn2018 · Lucas Pope87.0
Dark Souls questions
How much does Dark Souls cost in the UK?
Dark Souls: Remastered (Steam UK, standard price): £34.99. Dark Souls: Remastered (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo eShop UK, standard price): £34.99. Prices checked 21 October 2026.
Is Dark Souls free to play?
No. Dark Souls is not free to play: you buy the game to play it.
How long is Dark Souls?
Main story: about 29 hours. Main + extras: about 44 hours. Completionist: about 68.5 hours (HowLongToBeat). At £34.99, that's £1.21 per hour (main story).
What age rating is Dark Souls?
Dark Souls is rated PEGI 16.
How many people play Dark Souls?
Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts): 6,810, checked 21 October 2026. Its all-time Steam peak is 11,248.
What is Dark Souls's all-time Steam peak?
11,248 concurrent players on Steam, the highest Steam Charts has recorded for Dark Souls (read 28 October 2026). The peak in the last 30 days was 162. Players on other stores and consoles aren't counted.
Is Dark Souls dead?
Not dead, but small on Steam: Dark Souls peaked at 219 players at once in September 2026, with 116 playing at any moment on average. That is steady with the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
Do these Dark Souls player numbers include consoles?
No. The player counts on this page are Steam only (Steam Charts, read 28 October 2026). People playing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, through Game Pass or on other PC stores aren't counted, and publishers rarely publish those figures.
Who makes Dark Souls?
Dark Souls is developed by FromSoftware, Inc. and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
Dark Souls is a dark fantasy action role-playing game from FromSoftware, published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It first came out in 2011, and the original PC version, the Prepare to Die Edition, came to Steam on 24 August 2012. That Steam listing no longer shows a price. The version sold today is Dark Souls: Remastered, made by FromSoftware with QLOC, which came to Steam on 23 May 2018. It is sold at a one-off price. It ranks #55 in our best games of all time ranking.
How it plays
Dark Souls is set in Lordran, a dark fantasy world built as one seamless, fully explorable whole, where dungeons and areas link together and stretch high and low. You face murderous traps, grotesque enemies and huge demon and dragon bosses, and the game expects you to die often and learn from each death.
Bonfires act as checkpoints. Resting at one restores your health and magic, but every enemy comes back. Your character grows as you choose which abilities to improve, and success depends on learning when to use magic, which armour to wear and which weapons and moves to use. The publisher puts the game at about 60 hours, with nearly 100 kinds of monster.
Online, other players can appear in your world. You can see how they died, find and leave messages, summon others to help in co-op, including against bosses, or invade other worlds to fight. The Prepare to Die Edition added a new chapter with bosses such as Artorias of the Abyss, and a player-versus-player arena with online matchmaking.
What it costs
Dark Souls: Remastered costs £34.99 on Steam UK and £34.99 on the Nintendo eShop UK for Nintendo Switch. We haven't listed PS4 or Xbox One prices.
Players
The 30-day peak for Dark Souls: Remastered on Steam Charts was 6,810 concurrent players on 21 October 2026, and its all-time peak is 24,505, in May 2018. The older Prepare to Die Edition still shows players on Steam Charts: a 30-day peak of 194 and an all-time peak of 11,248. Steam doesn't count console players.
Age rating
Dark Souls: Remastered is rated PEGI 16 for violence, according to pegi.info, for PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One (rated 24 May 2018). Nintendo UK also lists the Switch version as PEGI 16.
How we checked
Prices are the Steam UK and Nintendo eShop UK listings, read on 21 October 2026, at standard price. Player figures are from Steam Charts on the same day, and the rating is from pegi.info. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page for the Prepare to Die Edition.
Card art and page images: screenshots from Bandai Namco Entertainment's Dark Souls Steam store page. © Bandai Namco Entertainment. All trademarks belong to their owners. GamesChart is not endorsed by or affiliated with Bandai Namco Entertainment.
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Sources
- Card art and page images – Dark Souls Steam store screenshots (Bandai Namco Entertainment), published by store.steampowered.com
- PEGI rating – Dark Souls, published by pegi.info
- Steam Charts – Dark Souls: Remastered, published by steamcharts.com
- Steam UK – Dark Souls: Remastered, published by store.steampowered.com
- Nintendo UK – Dark Souls: Remastered, published by nintendo.com
- Steam Charts – Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, published by steamcharts.com
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