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BLACK SOULS II

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

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Quick resume

Despair. Fear, Madness, once again. An original work based on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." Dark Fairy Tale Fantasy x Psychological Horror RPG focusing on the themes of "Exploration of a Mad World" and "Life or Death Combat against Demonbeasts".

Global score

98/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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    Pros

    • Deep and complex story with rich lore
    • Challenging and strategic combat
    • High replayability with multiple endings
    • Immersive dark fantasy atmosphere
    • Meaningful player choice and consequence

    Cons

    • Steep difficulty spikes especially in dlc
    • Some ui and balance issues
    • Content patch required for full experience
    • Niche appeal due to controversial themes
    • Some translation and technical roughness

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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      "Strong psychological horror and fantasy elements provide immersive escape from reality."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily driven by intrinsic interest in story and characters rather than obligation or external pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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      "Strongly rooted in dark fantasy, gothic horror, and surreal lore."

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    • Fellowship

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      "Focus is on individual narrative experience with minimal social or community interaction."

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    • Growth

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      "Players develop skills, learn story details, and improve through multiple playthroughs."

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and active engagement rather than casual or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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      "Player acts individually without leading or managing others."

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Relaxation, Survival, Violence, Fellowship. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Exploration, Story.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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