If you miss the original Dark Souls as much as you do the mottled grass textures of Hyrule Field, you will perhaps enjoy Mouseward, which is available now in pre-alpha form. It’s a “soulslike collectathon” from the people behind Void Sols, which Katharine (RPS in peace) found to be “an atmospheric and highly customisable Soulslike for people who are rubbish at Soulslikes”. Mouseward seems similarly forgiving, for all its grim talk of death being “a lesson, not an end”.

