Soulslike games like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight, and Lies of P aren’t lighthearted games in the slightest, with adorable critters and moments of levity barely punctuating how brutal or depressing they are. Meanwhile, beloved Soulslike games like Another Crab’s Treasure lean into lightheartedness fully and leverage humor as part of their unique charm.
Soulslike games’ character designs set the bar quite high for every other video game subgenre, as it’s usually expected that NPCs will be bizarrely intriguing and bosses will be gruesomely epic. The newest Soulslike game to come crawling out of the woodwork is clearly inspired by Dark Souls, but specifically one boss who maybe has one of the saddest stories in any FromSoftware games.
As per its Steam store page, Parry Frames’ Stray Dog: nobody cares is a Soulslike game that essentially has you playing as Dark Souls’ Great Grey Wolf Sif. Indeed, the meat and potatoes of it is that you play as Stray Dog: nobody cares’ cute, titular wolf—described as being “scorned by all as useless roadside trash,” sadly—and battle enemies with a sword gripped in your jaws.
Based on the gameplay shown thus far, it looks as much like a tried-and-true Soulslike as any...
