I've never personally been a fan of the Souls games, whether it be Dark Souls, Elden Ring, or Bloodborne, none of them have ever floated my boat. I appreciate they're all superb games, but I've always felt like they needed more...flapping birds.
But my prayers have finally been answered, because a new indie game - which is completely free-to-play - has combined Dark Souls and Flappy Bird to bring us all...Flappy Souls. The concept is simple, as the official Steam store page for the game describes it as "a mix of Flappy Bird and Dark Souls, fly around dodging obstacles while collecting souls and leveling up."
This hidden gem currently only has 14 reviews on Steam, but they're all positive. One user said Flappy Souls was "truly a soulsborne game," whilst another called it "life-changing."
Unlike many of the other Souls games, Flappy Souls doesn't require you to have any beefy PC specs to play it. It takes up just 40MB of space on your hard drive, and simply requires the user to be running Windows 10 with an Intel i3-2100 / AMD A8-5600k CPU and 4GB of RAM.
For those that might have forgotten, Flappy Bird was a hit mobile game that made the rounds in 2013, before the creator pulled it from app stores in 2014. It featured an incredibly simple yet addictive concept, which is reportedly why its creator removed it from existence. Flappy Bird was a side-scrolling arcade game where players took control of a small yellow bird and simply tapped the screen to avoid hitting the giant green poles.
Similar to the likes of P.T on PlayStation 4 consoles, users began selling their mobile devices with Flappy Bird pre-installed for a ridiculous price once the hit game was delisted from app stores. Since then, numerous iterations from other developers have appeared online, with Flappy Souls being the latest in a long line of parodies.
Unlike many of the others though, Flappy Souls combines the concept with Dark Souls. Not only is the game incredibly difficult, but it also allows users to collect souls along the way and level up. Naturally, I tried out Flappy Souls before changing your life with this article, and it's certainly a frustratingly fun experience.
There are three different types of souls to collect along the way, all of which appear randomly each time. My best score was a measly 25, and although I collected 10 souls and progressed to level 2, I couldn't actually see what the difference was in levels. But, one thing I will say, it has some gnarly music to go along with it.
Flappy Souls is completely free-to-play and incredibly addicting, make sure to check it out and show the developer some love over on Steam.