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Dark Souls walkthrough

A survival guide to one of gaming's most hostile environments

If the name didn’t tip you off, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is a difficult game. You’re going to die. A lot. Even with our help. On the bright side, at least with our extremely thorough walkthrough you’ll know exactly where you should be whilst doing all of that dying. So hopefully that brings you some comfort.

 

This walkthrough, with videos for every boss, covers the entirety of Dark Souls including all of the additional content in the Prepare to Die Edition. The order you see below is what we found to be the best path through the game. Since this is an open-world environment, you’re free to branch out as you like, choosing the more difficult paths as you see fit. However, we highly recommend you complete the game in the order we’ve outlined. All possible optional sections (marked 'OP') are included.

We’ve even created lengthy FAQ and Achievement guide sections, with useful knowledge such as the best places to farm for stuff, how to join every covenant, and where to find weapons, miracles, sorcery spells, and pyromancy spells. So good luck - and praise the sun!

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11 comments

  • Sinxar - January 20, 2013 6:29 a.m.

    I assumed you needed to kill the Stray Demon for the ring, turns out you don't to get the Rusted Iron Ring. So just walk around the room to avoid it and still loot the place. It drops nothing of value anyway.
  • matt-mcsavaney - January 14, 2013 7:10 a.m.

    How does a caster beat the asylum boss? He one hits everytime i miss a dodge, i cant do that hit and run tactic the melee uses because of cast time which in turn gets me killed, help please?
  • Sinxar - January 6, 2013 6:49 p.m.

    In "The Depths", you can take the path behind the first butcher and kill the giant rat with a bow from the ledge you land on. It won't jump up to defend itself.
  • yuwendi-gozali - December 20, 2012 12:45 a.m.

    have some question, when went to ring second bell , im not enter blight town form depth but dark root secret road that lead to valey of the drake. so after i rang second bell im went to the depth to look for zena shop but i didnt find him anywhere. after i back to firelink too zena didnt appeared :( (i just read that zena going to fire link after u rang two bell in another walkthrought). the question is, how i find zena? should i have to NG+ first? i really want that armor from knight of atorias in new content (cos the armor is f*cking cool X( )
  • yuwendi-gozali - December 20, 2012 6:51 a.m.

    about my post... , nevermind, i just found him :] btw great walkthrought thx!!!
  • Iwaskia - October 21, 2012 6:25 a.m.

    whats that sword you used to kill the four nights? and how can you get it? i folow the walktrought so far but i dont think i have the sword.
  • Matt Hughes - October 23, 2012 9:10 p.m.

    If you mean the Four Kings boss battle, that Quelaag’s Furysword. You can find the details on how to obtain it near the end of pg 44 in this guide.
  • Iwaskia - October 26, 2012 5:19 a.m.

    thanks men that was a great help.
  • NEPAL - October 20, 2012 4:05 p.m.

    Thanks for the effort you put into the guide, really helped me with the game.
  • Matt Hughes - October 21, 2012 6:13 a.m.

    Sure thing - glad it helped!
  • grappler51 - September 11, 2012 6:17 a.m.

    Awesome guide! Got this recently for PC and was really confused about the humanity system, cleared a lot of things up!

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