A new free RPG that’s just hit Steam Early Access is giving us major Dark Souls vibes, and I already want to see more.

Considering Dark Souls has become one of the most influential action RPGs in recent years, it’s no wonder that loads of developers, big and small, have been inspired by it to create their own games.

GreenBeamStudio’s Shards of the Banished is one such title, in which the game’s aesthetic, story, and gameplay appear to take heavy inspiration from the FromSoftware games. Not that that’s a bad thing, of course, because in fact it looks really damn good.

Shards of the Banished is described as a “soulslike action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy world”, where you play as a “lone warrior cast into a land consumed by glimmering darkness and the ashes of what was once

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