On Soulsring Worlds - Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, Interpretation in Dark

The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Complicating the Flow of Time
2. Game Space: Layers and Gaps
3. Reimagining Humanity as Multiplicity
4. Community: Asynchronous Multiplayer and Shared Difficulty
5. Levels of Interpretation in Online Discussion
6. Soul and Swamp: Ethics of Soulsring Gameplay
Works Cited

About the author

Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the environmental humanities, his work explores the forms of experience afforded by narrative in literary fiction and video games. He is the author of several books, including most recently Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Marco Caracciolo, Caracciolo Marco
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032684017
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3268401-7
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, Christianity, The arts, Games development & programming, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General, Games development and programming, Digital Animation, Research methods: general, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics, Research methods / methodology