PS5 games like the Demon's Souls remake aren't for the faint of heart.

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Games with multiple difficulty settings cater to all players, from ...

A League of Legends competition in an arena. Image by Patar knight - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 A League of Legends competition in an arena. Image by Patar knight - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 League of ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. The hardest difficulty settings in games like Mass Effect: Andromeda, ...

Some games use difficulty in ways that are simple and completely uninteresting. For example, some just create damage sponge enemies the higher up you go. That's not very fun, it never has been, and it ...

We all come to video games for different reasons. Sometimes we want a chill game to relax to, others a fun co-op experience with a friend, but other times we’re looking for a challenge. Early on in ...

DeathSprint 66 is a great action racing title that's unapologetically difficult, and not in the "you can do this if you try hard enough" type of way, like with a Souls game. High-difficulty purists ...

Created by modder Rex Zakel, the “Monster Difficulty Plus” mod is described as a “Vanilla+ Difficulty Mod” for the latest game in the series. Not designed for veterans, this mod is designed to be for ...

It seems as though every six months or so the discourse around difficulty settings in video games lights up across pockets of the internet — typically tied to the release of the latest soulslike.