Dark Souls Series Has Now Sold Over 27 Million Copies Worldwide, FromSoftware Confirms

Time for the trilogy on Switch, then?

It took a while, but Nintendo gamers finally got to sample the delights of the Dark Souls series when Dark Souls: Remastered launched on Switch back in October 2018. The original game released in 2011 and ushered in a new era of unforgiving titles that rewarded patience and skill with deep combat and intriguing, lore-filled kingdoms to explore. The series punishes carelessness, though, and (re)introduced a generation of gamers to that staple of video games that was becoming a rare sight: the Game Over screen.

We gamers are gluttons for punishment, though, as confirmed today by developer FromSoftware who announced via Twitter that the series has sold over 27 million copies to date, including both sequels to the seminal original:

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