Longest: Dark Souls 2 SOTFS. With the amount of bosses, plus the maps you traverse through the game almost feels longer due to those reasons alone. Plus the 3 DLC areas had a hefty amount of good content. I remember Crown of the Sunken King being very long my first 2 playthroughs.
Dark Souls 3 features the shortest average playtime out of all the games in the series.
Dark Souls 3 might be the hardest Souls game ever made. Even after literally hundreds of hours spent playing Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, and Bloodborne, the latest installment of From Software's infamously challenging series is about as tough as these games get.
In many ways, Dark Souls 3 is the easiest Dark Souls game because FromSoft had ironed out many of the little problems from previous entries. Combat in that game is far more polished and faster than it was in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2.
So in short, DS2 is more demanding of the player's skill to do well... but if the player doesn't do well it's more forgiving, allowing them to heal indefinitely and usually having a shorter distance to a bonfire.
Dark Souls 2
The original game before the release of Scholar had many glaring issues between enemies, enemy placement, summoning friends, and more. It is by far the worst game to release in the franchise. One of the biggest issues that players suffered through was the original summoning system.
The game becomes a lot easier for the player if they make good use of Spirits, but that doesn't quite drop it beneath DS2's difficulty. Dark Souls 2's overall difficulty is still lower than Elden Ring's thanks to its simple, slow enemies, and Elden Ring's toughest fights take cues from the Fume Knight.
The Dark Souls games are regarded as some of the most difficult games of the generation. The RPG has gained notoriety for its absence of a difficulty setting and its seemingly unfair gameplay.
Short answer: Sekiro, which may prove to be one of the most challenging games ever made. Don't just take our word for it—Forbes, Digital Spy, Gamespot and a bevy of other publications agree: Sekiro is harder than any of the Dark Souls games and Bloodborne .
When focusing on the main objectives, Dark Souls is about 42 Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 105 Hours to obtain 100% completion.
Sekiro has always been regarded as the hardest souls game to play and master, requiring precision, patience and a little bit of luck. It's those elements that have cemented the title as the soulsborne game you should never start with.
1 Black Dragon Kalameet
The DLC's secret boss, Kalameet, is easily the hardest boss in the game. Since he isn't a part of the DLC's natural flow of progression, he's allowed to be much harder than other bosses in the game. As far as Souls bosses go in general, he remains one of the series' toughest challenges.
1 Pyromancer
There shouldn't be any doubt that Pyromancer is the best class to start with. It comes with a hand axe, round shield, and pyromancy flame that is very helpful. This is the class for people who want to play Dark Souls for the first time or want to experience a hybrid of strength and deadly pyromancy.
Chess. Chess is famous for being a difficult game to master. Professional players dedicate years to learning all the different strategies in the game; they need to study continuously to keep up with the competition. Chess has baffled players for centuries.
According to HLTB, the crown for longest overall video game belongs to Melvor Idle, a Runescape-inspired idle/incremental game with an estimated playtime of 3,126 hours. On the other end of the spectrum lies Trivia Vault: Super Heroes Trivia with an estimated playtime of 1 minute and 12 seconds.
Is Elden Ring too hard or too easy? Compared to games like that, Elden Ring just isn't very mechanically difficult. Most enemies telegraph their attacks with massive, seconds-long animations that give players plenty of time to react with a well-timed dodge, block, or parry.
While Pinwheel is undeniably the easiest boss in the original Dark Souls, he still poses a greater challenge than the Prowling Magus and Congregation from Dark Souls 2.
Bloodborne is often touted as one of the hardest games of all time. For that matter, the entire Dark Souls series is bandied as some of the hardest games ever, but Bloodborne is often seen as particularly challenging thanks to its fast-paced combat.
Dark Souls is harder unless you go for a tank build. Bloodborne might be the hardest after all. I've not played bloodborne but with the dark games once you're past the first playthrough you start to over level your character which counters game+ making it easier.