A Dark Souls 3 – 2D pixelart metroidvania was pitched to Bandai Namco ~6 years ago. This is now finally out of NDA, so enjoy the visuals created back then.

A 2D pixel art Metroidvania reimagining From Software's Dark Souls 3 was rejected by Bandai Namco.

It appears that back in 2016, Bandai Namco received a pitch for a 2D Metroidvania game set in the world of Dark Souls. Pixel artist Thomas Feichtmeir shared a screenshot of the proposal on Twitter ...

A 2D pixel art Metroidvania based on Dark Souls III was seemingly rejected by Bandai Namco. According to artist Thomas Feichtmeir (via Twitter), the side-scrolling Dark Souls 3 game was pitched to ...

Solo developer John Pywell's Fountains is a game that goes beyond the typical 2D approximations of FromSoftware's pivotal Dark Souls.

The Dark Souls games are fantastic 3D metroidvanias, but recently, game artist Thomas Feichtmeir revealed that at one point, there were plans for a 2D spin-off as well. Unfortunately, it never got ...

Well, it now appears that Thomas Feichtmeir, an artist who worked on Blasphemous, actually once pitched an idea to publisher Bandai Namco for a 2D pixel art version of Dark Souls III.

We recently got a sneak peek at something that might have been truly awesome, a screenshot of a Dark Souls 3 2D Metroidvania which was apparently pitched to Bandai Namco, but criminally, was rejected.

Dark Souls 3 came very close to having a 2D metroidvania version, as shown by a pixelart image from a scrapped pitch.

Amazingly, we almost got a 2D Dark Souls game but it sadly never saw the light of day. Come and mourn its demise and see it firsthand here.

Pixel artist Thomas Feichtmeir shared a screenshot of a 2D pixel art, metroidvania version of Dark Souls 3 pitched to Bandai Namco.