Dark Souls Receives Seamless Co-op Through Mod 14 Years After Release

Soulsborne modder Yui turned their eyes on Dark Souls and released a seamless co-op mod for the game 14 years after its initial release. Yui has done these types of mods for quite a few Soulsborne games now, with the most popular iteration being the Elden Ring one.

The mod was released on April 10 and already has more than 13,000 unique downloads. According to Yui, this is not a bug-free version, and players will run into one at times. However, Yui is committed to fixing them in future updates.

Similar to their other co-op mods, it allows up to five players to play Dark Souls side by side. Yui admitted that this will make the game significantly easier, and because of that, they introduced a little bit of balancing.

The mod page mentions that the base Dark Souls only introduces multiplayer scaling for bosses, but Yui applied that scaling to every enemy in the game. Players will still be able to edit this by changing things in a configuration file included when players download the mod.

Aside from this, fog walls and barriers preventing players from joining the main host are gone, the death of players won’t end the session, and dying during a boss battle will put their character in limbo. Players will respawn after every single player is defeated or if one player rests at a bonfire.

Yui’s projects revolve around FromSoftware games most of the time. Recently, they’ve also released a seamless co-op mod for Dark Souls 3, leaving Dark Souls 2 to be the only one without a similar mod. 

Dark Souls was first released on September 22, 2011, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In 2012, the game received a PC version through Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. A remaster of the game was released in 2018.