We're in the middle of a Slike boom, and it seems there's a new one every few months. In a tidal wave of pretenders, what's worth the time investment?
What's on your backlog?
What's your build like?
Who's walling you?
What's on your mind?
<What even is a Slike?
A vague subgenre of melee action-adventure-RPG's, typically featuring a hard / punishing-but-fair difficulty, a mature dark-fantasy setting with lots of lore (typically optional, in item descriptions), with a good variety in builds / gameplay approaches, an EXP penalty for dying (that can be recovered) and a highly explorable world with static checkpoints that reset the world on use, gated by numerous difficult boss encounters.
Any FromSoft-hypetrain-wannabe Dark Souls clone, that requires you to git gud, with a depressing setting that 2deep4u lorefags jerk off to and argue about, where you take your pick of rollslop / parryslop / turtling and STR / DEX / INT, then you lose your souls when you die, all the enemies respawn and you get sent back to the bonfire to do it again until da boss is dead.
Not every game that fits that description is a slike (especially with the term being used as both a tacked-on marketing tool and an insult), and not every slike fits that description - the most straightforward answer is that once you've played one, you'll intuitively know when you're playing another one.
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