The Dark Souls series of action RPGs developed by FromSoftware are notorious for their extreme difficulty, so much so that they and their predecessor Demon’s Souls spawned an entirely new video game genre. In a recent poll of Japanese gamers about the most frustrating games ever, two FromSoftware titles ranked in the top five: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and the original Dark Souls. The most recent game in the trilogy, 2016’s Dark Souls 3, didn't relent on the difficulty.