In the decade following Demon's Souls' release, FromSoftware dedicated most of its time to improving upon its newly popular "Soulslike" formula, delivering critically acclaimed games like Dark Souls and its two sequels, and Bloodborne. But in 2019, FromSoftware released Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and while it followed a similar overall structure to FromSoftware's Soulslikes, it deviated from the formula in a few distinct ways, and added its own swathe of new features and systems.