Video games likeDark Souls are rare to find in the gaming landscape. Few games can combine a mysterious world with phenomenal level and world design the way From Software can.
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The sense of difficulty drives home the well-made locations and lore. However, as players explore the worlds From Soft have created and mastered the game's combat systems, it becomes less and less exciting to play through its PvE content. Thanks to modders, the ability to change any part of the game is available to fans. If you want to fight bosses in every zone—or if you want to see crabs for every texture—here are the ten coolestDark Souls 3 mods that make the game even better.
Updated April 30th, 2021 by Charles Burgar:The modding community has been hard at work adding incredible content to Dark Souls 3, ranging from new weapons to fundamental overhauls. We've replaced a few mods with more recent mods that have made some excellent changes to the game. Download links are also present in each entry for those that want to give these mods a try.Be warned; youcan get Softbanned for using some of these mods. Use mods at your own risk.
10 First Person Cam
TheDark Souls community has a frequent saying of "git gud," which is a humorous parody of typical advice among novice gamers to just simply understand the game better.
If you want to take that to a whole other level, install the First Person Cam mod. This mod will turn the camera from a third-person perspective to a first-person one, making you only able to see your hands and weapon. Good luck trying to time dodges or properly aim spells or arrows. It's fantastic for taking pictures or playing in aunique way, but it's pretty clear that the balance of this game never thought about first-person animations. If you're a masoch*st, though, nothing can get much more difficult than this.
Download Link:First Person Cam (byZullie the Witch)
9 Hunter's Combat
Do you enjoy Dark Souls 3's combat but miss Bloodborne'strick weapons? Hunter's Combat has you covered. This mod adds certain transformable trick weapons from that game to Dark Souls 3, complete with animations used in Bloodborne. It's astounding that this mod can even exist in Dark Souls 3's engine, but here we are. Pair this witha Bloodborne dodge modto drastically change the feel of Dark Souls 3's combat.
Download Link:Hunter's Combat(by Forsakensilver)
8 StraySouls
If you love the difficultyDark Souls brings but want an even larger challenge, StraySouls is the mod for you. StraySouls randomizes enemies in the entire game, even allowing multiple enemies to spawn in the same location.
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The enemy variety inDark Souls 3 is astounding, so you will see a plethora of enemies to face in earlier zones, changing your strategy to beat them. These enemies can even include bosses or NPCs. You can fight the Curse-Rotten Greatwood in a small hallway or meet the Irythll Dungeon life-sapping enemies at the start of the game. It's frustrating and incredibly fun at the same time, bringing back that sense of mystery and terror the original games sold so well.
Download Link:StraySouls (byJacks0n)
7 Item Randomizer and Auto-Equip (Dark Souls III)
Fans of roguelike video games are going to love this mod. Item Randomizer and Auto-Equip does what it says in the title: every item in the game is now random, and it auto-equips new gear.
You could get a broken sword after the first boss, or you could get a demon hammer. The auto-equip part is optional if you don't like that feature, but the item randomizer is the real star of the show. Every playthrough is so much different thanks to this mod, letting you get overpowered weapons early game or get terrible gear for most of the game. This mod will truly test your skill.
Download Link:Item Randomiser and Auto-equip (byLukeYui)
6 Embrace The Darkness Reshade
Embrace the Darkness Reshade is a fairly new Reshade preset that aims to enhance the atmosphere of Dark Souls 3 while staying true to the vanilla game. Not only did they succeed, but this Reshade is also one of the most performance friendly Reshades you can find for Dark Souls 3. It runs well, gives the world a sense of depth that was missing from the vanilla game, yet it never oversteps its boundaries with post-processing effects. If you're looking for a good graphics or Reshade mod for Dark Souls 3, Embrace the Darkness is sure to impress.
Download Link:Embrace The Darkness Reshade (by occam_chainsaw)
5 iGP11
If you don't want to use preset visuals, however, you can experiment with the look of Dark Souls 3 with the fantastic iGP11 mod. Post-processing effects and texture replacements are at your fingertips.
Depth of field, motion blur, anisotropic filtering, and so much more are available for you to customize. Once the effects look the way you want, you can further alter the textures the game uses by replacing them with others. Upscale textures you like or replace all of them with Nicolas Cage. No matter the intention, iGP11 is an excellent graphics mod responsible for many of thegreat Reshades and texture mods we have today.
Download Link:iGP11 (byS17L)
4 Cinders
Cinders has been compared to Dark Souls 2's Scholar of the First Sin edition in terms of additions and changes made. That comparison sounds hyperbolic until you realize just how many things Cinders changes.
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A few key changes include:
- FP now regenerates
- You can farm bosses after you defeat them
- World progression has been overhauled
- Dozens of new weapons, spells, and armor sets from other From Software games have been added
- Challenge run rewards from Dark Souls 2 have returned
- Hundreds of balance changes
And that's only scratching the surface. Cinders is one of the largest overhauls you'll find for Dark Souls 3 currently. The sheer variety of content in this mod will keep any Dark Souls veteran busy for multiple playthroughs at least.
Download Link: Cinders(by Vawser)
3 Wex Dust
Invading enemy players is one of the cornerstones of Dark Souls PvP action, but it leaves a lot to be desired. Mainly, entering a match against a fellow player is clunky and unintuitive.
A modder has tried to fix this by adding a new item called Wex Dust in their mod titled Wex Dust. This item lets you invade enemies from anywhere in the world while you're at Firelink Shrine, making invasions so much easier to pull off. Furthermore, the dust item will try to find new locations every invasion to prevent fatigue from seeing the same zone. This mod is so amazing that it's a shock From Software didn't come up with this idea.
Download Link:Wex Dust (byametalon)
2 Champion's Ashes
Most overhauls for Dark Souls 3 focus on overhauling the PvE aspect of the game, ignoring the PvP aspect of the game entirely. Champion's Ashes aims to address this.
Champion's Ashes was built from the ground up with PvP in mind. The Ashes team has done an excellent job not just rebalancing the game but adding depth to it as well. New combat additions like feints add a whole new layer of strategy to the sandbox that the original game was sorely lacking. PvE enemies and bosses have also seen some major changes, so don't install this mod thinking it's simply a PvP mod. The developers have even tweaked the lightning to reflect the leaked alpha screenshots, giving Lothric a beautiful color palette and sense of mystery that the base game lacked. Champion's Ashes is a thoughtful, well-crafted overhaul that takes every aspect of Dark Souls 3's sandbox into account.
Download Link:Champion's Ashes (byHalvard - Gabri - Angeluso)
1 The Convergence
Overhaul mods for Dark Souls 3 have become more common as the community figures out new ways to mod the game. The Convergence is one of the most impressive overhauls of the bunch, going as far as overhauling Dark Souls 3's magic system and altering map geometry to create a new gameplay experience.
The most noticeable change with this mod is the rework to all schools of magic. All schools of magic (Sorcery, Miracles, and Pyromancy) have four subclasses that allow you to specialize in certain damage types or gameplay styles. If you've gotten used to Cinders, you'll feel somewhat at home with The Convergence. Features such as regenerating FP and repeatable boss fights are present here.
Infusions are overhauled, the first few zones have entirely new level geometry and enemy spawns, and new bosses have been added to keep you on your toes. It's hard to overstate just how many systems The Convergence has changed, yet none of them dampen the experience the modding team was going for. If you want to experience Dark Souls 3 from a new light, give this mod a try.
Download Link:The Convergence (byTigerG92 - CouchJockey - AronTheBaron)
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