Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition

Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition is a complete edition of Dark Souls III, released in April 2017. It includes the base game along with both DLC expansions: Ashes of Ariandel and The Ringed City. This…

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Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy Historical Open world

Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 21 April 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 55 hrs to finish.

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What Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition is

Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2017. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dark Souls III is a 2016 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows, it is the third and final entry in the Dark Souls trilogy. The game follows the Ashen One, an unkindled warrior, on a quest involving the Lords of Cinder and the fading First Flame. It is played from a third-person perspective, and players use weapons, armour, magic, shields, and consumables to fight enemies. Series creator Hidetaka Miyazaki returned as a director after having a supervisory role on Dark Souls II.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dark Souls series

Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition is the 21st of 25 entries we hold in the Dark Souls series. The next entry was Dark Souls: Remastered in 2018. Its critic score of 85 is almost exactly the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Dark Souls at 91.

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How it was received

Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 89, across 61 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 55 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 100 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition launched on 21 April 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.

Cheats and codes

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