I always thought old Ben was a little too dismissive here. "Well of course I know him--" Oh, well excuse me Mr. Jedi-pants!

Youtube red me a video recently, forget what it was about, but the guy mentioned 'Rogue, one the first rogue-likes' and that caught me off guard a bit.

And than there’s Demon’s Souls just sitting in the corner I guess.

gets out his cane

You whipper snappers don’t know or remember King’s Field.

I mean, in logic any predicate A implies A. If we consider Souls Like to be some arbitrary subset of Dark Souls properties, then yes, Dark Souls contains them all.

But also, just because it’s a Souls game doesn’t mean it’s Souls Like, like DS3.