Dark Souls 4 remains a long-running debate in gaming, but Hidetaka Miyazaki has suggested FromSoftware is essentially finished with the series as an ongoing one. Instead, Dark Souls is set to return on September 22, 2026, with Dark Souls: Redemption—while the
On the internet, Dark Souls 4 has always had a pulse—even when the studio moved on. Fans keep restarting the conversation because the trilogy still hits like a complete, finished cycle. And for years. that’s been exactly the point: FromSoftware’s Dark Souls story has been treated by fans and by the studio itself as complete.
Creator Hidetaka Miyazaki has echoed that sentiment. saying the studio is more or less finished with Dark Souls as an ongoing series. It’s a line that lands differently for people who want one more entry and differently for people who simply want the ending left intact—but either way. it turns the debate into something colder: less wishful thinking. more limits.
Since then, FromSoftware has shifted its energy into other defining projects that evolved the Souls formula into new shapes. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice arrived with a very different rhythm. Elden Ring followed with a world that expanded the same DNA into something enormous. And now, the studio is also preparing The Duskbloods, a divisive PvPvE-focused project for Switch 2, launching later this year (maybe).
Even so, the trilogy’s popularity refuses to stay quiet. Remakes. remasters. and franchise revivals have become a steady industry habit. and Dark Souls sits in the sweet spot for that kind of attention. The result is speculation that never really dies—no matter how many times the “it’s done” argument gets repeated.
This week, the conversation just got a schedule attached to it. Dark Souls will be making an official return this September with a brand-new release for Dark Souls: Redemption.
The date is clear: Tuesday, September 22, 2026. That’s when fans can snag the third… (the article cuts off there), but the takeaway holds. Whatever people want Dark Souls 4 to be, the series is taking a different road—one that doesn’t need to promise an entirely new sequel to bring attention back.
There’s a neat tension in the sequence of events: Miyazaki’s claim that FromSoftware is finished as an ongoing series sits beside a steady stream of Dark Souls-related momentum driven by public demand. industry revival trends. and now a new September release. The story doesn’t feel like a contradiction so much as a decision—Dark Souls stays alive. but not in the way longtime fans have been arguing about.
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