(My only defense is that I was exhausted and rushing to release the mod “by the end of 2018,” which turned out to be the second day of 2019.) I also shouldn’t have described it as “what Dark Souls would look like if FromSoft had six more months of development.” This was partially true: I restored as much cut or unfinished content as I could and even added a “castle invasion” story event that coincidentally reappeared in Sekiro shortly after. I didn’t help myself by making mistakes in my original description of the mod, foolishly throwing out numbers where none were needed and implying that the game was now doubled in size. I was releasing daily patches for a good two weeks gradually, the dents were buffed out, and I was able to focus on porting it to the Remastered edition of the game in May 2019. It was rough in the sense that even after months of solo playtesting, I had no chance of finding all the bugs that thousands of players reported in the first few days. You can find articles about it online and read an interview I did with Steven Wright at Eurogamer.ĭoA had a release (on 2 January 2019) that was both a little rough and surprisingly smooth. I most recently updated the mod in July 2020 (version 1.5.2), which is intended to be the final release.

It’s a big mod for Dark Souls that remixes a lot of the game’s content, and adds a significant amount, in the hope of recapturing that feeling of playing Dark Souls for the first time. NOTE: As of version 1.5.0, both Nexus download links work for both versions of the game.ĭark Souls: Daughters of Ash is definitely the most well-known project I’ve ever released.

Dark souls overhaul project