yeah that's right, I can make more than 1 video a month sometimes

Yeoww glad you agree Enchain is hypefuck, and glad I helped it hit your list. choice steamdives as always mister john soulslike

“Press G to use the med kit” Iron Pinappple: “so there’s no healing in this fight”

That Van Gogh game looks dope actually. Such an odd atmosphere, and good execution.

I’d love a "where are they now" second look on some of the potential games you kinda liked that were in early access.

Honestly, "I played 8 MORE Souls-Like games you've never heard of" has become my favorite series to follow on youtube.

the gameplay on Enchain looked sooo good, love the mechanics

Starry knight was such a genuinely touching game as it tries to convey the conflict within the artist. Honestly made me kinda emotional knowing his life history.

"it's not pain that makes a real artist, it's love" That hits

As far as I’m concerned, any game that makes you say out loud “I hate this game” and then you proceed to continue to play said game, is what truly makes or breaks a souls like.

"I hate this game so much." Yep, definitely a souls-like.

For the van Gogh one I actually shed a tear

this episode was seriously full of incredible titles. the Van Gogh entry wins my "would never play but teared up after witnessing it" award.

For the starry Knight game, I find it interesting that the "stranger" is just his past self, before he cut his ear off

"It is love." As an artist who deals with a lot of self hate, that made me cry a little. Beautiful

The way he says “Gun? :)”5:36 and “mini Gun :D” 7:42 is just pure joy it makes me happy to hear 😂

Sees him play Enchain: Yeah, this looks pretty cool, might check it out Sees him surf on a body down a hill: Okay, so how much money did you say you wanted for this exactly cause i'm paying double

starry knight actually got me in my feels with the final boss being called stranger when its his older self and then the "and its not pain that makes a real artist it is love"

i love how he’s so positive about these games and in the process of giving a chance discovers some games that should be so much more popular then they are

In starry knight, i like how by the end of the game the life bars get swapped and van gogh's' life bar turns into the boss bar

I fully expect this series to be theoretically capable of going on forever because souls-likes release at a faster rate than Pineapple can review them.

The Vincent Van Gogh game concept is amazing XD

"Blade of Darkness" got re-released (and for the first time released on Steam!) in October 2021. The game is from 2001 - a decade before Souls, and it wasn't managed well, the studio went bankrupt, but the few lucky fans who played it back then built somewhat of a niche cult following. And many of them swear that this game is the true predecessor of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, due to countless similarities in the combat system and level design (and no, those weren't the same way in King's Field!). Now on Steam the game has "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating - which is kind of amazing for a game that is 20 years old. Blade does have some janky-ness, which is still there, but that's really part of its charm. Despite the fact most people who tried it appraise it, I don't think the game is nearly as famous among Souls fans as it should be. Not sure if it fully qualifies the theme of "games you've never heard of", but I bet 90% of viewers haven't heard of it still. I wholeheartedly recommend it for this series - and I hope you'd enjoy it! It's worth a full playthrough, even though it's a difficult and unforgiving game with a lot of tricks to learn to fully appreciate it.

Enchain actually looks sick as hell and I'm actually excited to see how they improve it! They're delaying it to next year, but I feel like art should be taken slow and steady, so it'll definitely be better this way. BTW Badass vids dude! Love the meme games you play on these lol

As an artist, Starry Knight almost made me cry Love the concept of Van Gogh's troubled artist life converted into an action game that slowly faced all the "bosses" that caused him to end his life (which is why the ending you fight himself, but because of his depression he sees himself as 'Stranger') and the quote at the end really struck me the most as an artist who, sometimes, also hate myself for not doing anything right in art. but I still keep doing art because I love art.

Never would have thought there were this many souls like games jeez

When all the people turned yellow, referencing Van Gogh eating the yellow paint that assisted with his madness, I got major chills and teared up a little :o

Literally the only reason I’m leaving this comment is because you said there’s a pretty good chance you’ll read it. I want to thank you for the hours of work you put behind these videos and also the gems you uncover. UNSIGHTED seems like a really cool game and I’m super glad you showed it us!

“Also it has a roll button and stamina.” *Iron Pineapple* : Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

That Van Gough game is honestly pretty touching and well done. It’s clear it had a lot of love put into it.

i really appreciate how despite the thumbnail lure of this series being "time to TEAR IN to the WORST GARBAGE that TALENTLESS SCHMUCKS have put up on steam!!!" the actual content is like, actually engaging with the games on their own terms, even the obviously extremely janky ones, and talking about what they do right in addition to where they fall short and the places they show potential. it's like, *almost* kinda clickbait-y, but the bait and switch is into kindness and thoughtful genuine engagement and good vibes so i'm fine with it

I genuinely teared up at the vincent van gogh one (and laughed so hard at the idea of it being at a shitpost).. It's beautiful how many little hidden gems of passion there are out there in the world that'll never be found.

"Pain is the most profound of all human feelings" as a replacement for "YOU DIED" actually doesn't conflict with Dark Souls' lore, when i think about it. the whole thing of losing yourself from death and becoming a hollow - a death where you proclaim your humanity would be a very fitting cry for help for the hapless undead

Just wanna add onto the section about There Is No Light: The game has a large focus on weapon swapping. You heal by landing special attacks repeatedly, and the fist weapon excels at building the meter for those attacks. The greatsword attaches bombs to enemies which can be detonated by special attacks and specific abilities. The game heavily encourages rotating your weapons based on the situation, even moreso when you factor in the passive abilities that feed into that. The combat's tight as hell, but you're absolutely not going to enjoy it if you stick to one weapon.

Starry Knight had a deep melancholic feel to it.

I love this fucking series man, as someone who's interested in someday creating a game it's nice to see someone taking their time to give an honest and profound review with some feedback. Keep it up!

I love these videos. Doesn't even have to be "souls likes", I would watch a series of you just playing unknown or lesser known indie games

Can't wait to find out about the lore behind the legendary "Program Preset: Testing", by far my favorite boss in the entire series.

I didn't need the van gogh feelings man..... made me think of the doctor who moment also, I actually started crying man!

Unsighted is such a great game. One of my favorite games I've played on the switch

You've reliably become a source of interesting and good games, with an accurate and diverse takes on what the dev were trying to do when you approach a game. I like your "radio voice" too. ten-outa-ten.

Pine doing the good work of signal boosting Unsighted. Easily a game of the year contender.

I love this series so much, I can laugh and find hidden gems at the same time. Instantly got Unsighted to play, legit one of the best work of art I've ever played.

This video was a great entry point to the channel. I love how you're super chill even with bad games and your dry sense of humor works well here too, as does your game skill/knowledge. Keep it up! I can't wait to see what else you discover in the depths of steam.

Unsighted and Starry Night both seem really cool and I definitely wouldn't have heard about either without this video. Pineapple also does a really good job at least trying to be genuinely fair and thorough, this may be one of my favorite things he does contentwise.

“Looks like a randomly placed minecraft block” love that he hadn’t noticed literally 90% of the game’s textures were from minecraft lol

The combat for Unsouled, at least aesthetically, looks like it borrows a lot from Hyper Light Drifter. Great game, that one.

I love these videos. There's so many soulslike games out there and most people won't bother to play, or even know about, the majority of them. You find some hidden gems for us and you give unbiased reviews. I also love the enthusiasm and genuine passion. Thank you for doing what you do.

That Unsouled game just screams "Hyper Light Drifter" with the attack and dash animations and effects I dig it

One of the games you played before called "death's gambit" was completely redesigned in a free update. They claim the map is twice as big a the old one, they redid the talent tree and a whole lot more. I thought it might be fun to go back and see if they fixed your complaints.

The audio in There is No Light was pretty awesome though. The protag's yell when he throws his weapon and the booming bass of the boss hitting the floor were great.

If I had been playing the Van Gogh game myself I would've definitely cried at the end, what a masterpiece.

"Art Direction" is what really carries a whole lot of these games, isn't it? Even with basic or even slightly clunky controls, a solid and cohesive art direction can really keep you enraptured That being said, if the gameplay is completely borked, then not even solid art direction can save you.

A game called “Lies of P” was announced its a souls like, where you play as Pinocchio and can change your arm around to like a flamethrower and other things and it sounds cool

18:22 Dude, that's gotta be one of the coolest effects I've seen in a 2D game! It's like they switched it to 3D but... with the 2D graphics in tact

I've rewatched this series a few times. Highly entertaining. Keep up the good work!

As a game design student these help so much in seeing what everyone is making and finding interesting mechanics that I might never find, thanks a lot

Wow I'm extremely hyped for enchained. The moment I saw the surfing literally my jaw dropped. Getting the demo and cant wait for a full release, how has this escaped the internet??

I really enjoy this series and it's been super fun seeing your reactions to loads of different twists on souls-like mechanics, narratives, and world design. I'm currently developing a Souls-like 2D Metroidvania and this series has been invaluable to me as I finalize my own designs. Basically I've been looking at your play throughs as one means of gauging whether certain designs deliver on their promises. I look forward to the next one and I hope my game can be featured someday! (when I finish the demo at least)

Awesome video as always, me and my friends chat about them just after they come out and we've found some decent games from them. So thank you very much for that!

Unsighted looks so cool. I get strong Crosscode vibes from it. I wish games like this got more recognition.

Unsighted is one of those rare games made with passion that sadly didn't get the attention it deserves, I'm glad someone is praising it because it was one of my favorite indies of this year

I love how in depth this series is, and how many serious gems you find that would otherwise go almost completely unnoticed. Thanks king, good shit

this was my favourite one so far, so many interesting games, thank you for these awesome vids, I love your commentary and reviews

Damn. Unsighted looks like right up my alley. I love this series so far. Tons of good recommendations. I think the developers also like it. The coverage is free, honest and a good advertisment for their games.

I really hope Unsighted can see a significant boost in sales and discussion tracked back to this video. Game deserves it.

Love your videos man. I probably wouldn't make it through 9/10 of the games you play so i appreciate getting to witness bits of them through your point of view. Keeping making them!

Started watching this series yesterday not realizing how enjoyable it was going to be. I like your style man definitely going to watch the rest of your content.

I think the best thing you do is give everything an honest chance and take into account the context of the realistic expectations that both the creator and the consumer would have for the game. I would never have given cube cube more then 3 minutes of my time.

Enchain's checkpoint is literally the lamp from Bloodborne.

I love this series so much and you have given me some great suggestions. Keep up the great work man and have a happy new year.

13:49 My heart hurts.

At this point there’s probably someone who will make a souls like with the sole purpose of being in a pine video

Recommendation: "LOST TO TIME" Dark souls but time travel. Its pretty souls-like, lil bit janky and has reviews in the single digits

these videos are really good man, I used to think you're overdoing it with these 'Souls-Like games' type of videos but they don't get old, it's actually crazy how many interesting ones you keep finding still and I like this series more than I used to like it just makes you curious to see more of these games, love the channel.

Thank you for all the work you put into these. This series has been really interesting and I love how you give everything a chance. Some unfinished looking games have really interesting mechanics.

It looks to me like 'There is No Light' makes the mistake of having it's collision actually hit with anything that collides on-screen given the perspective, but while it's a 2D game, it has a 3D world and the collision should take that into account.

From humble Dark souls shitposts to genuinely good, fast paced reviews of souls-like games. Keep up the good work, Fe-Pineapple.

Definitely enjoying this series since I discovered you in the last few days, great work man, you're doing a wonderful service to the indie crowd! Keep it up!!

hey dude, just wanted to say that this is my first time watching these vids and im glad i could find a couple of gems to add to my steam wishlist. you've got a nice voice!

Getting Unsighted tomorrow! I've had it recommended enough times now to go through with it. I love these videos a lot, and the Van Gogh game looked beautiful. So much gold in the Steam dumpster.

Might be neat to do a retrospective on some of the early-access games you covered in the beginning of this series-see if they took off, fixed the problems you had with them, or died/faded into obscurity

Got me some solid recommendations for the future! Thanks for making this series, it's both entertaining to watch, and actually useful for exploring games.

Dude! I love watching your videos and have bought multiple games you recommended (and loved them). Thanks so much and have a great new year!!

I played the demo of Unsighted and generally enjoyed it. However what made me take a step away from it and remove it from my wishlist was the knowledge that there's a time limit to your gameplay. I really, really, really dislike being forced to rush. I like exploration and taking my time. That said, I did *NOT* know you can turn it off, so I'll be adding this back into my wishlist.

didn't expect the Ultrakill mention in this soulslike video, sick that game is amazing.

Thank you so much for checking all of these out. Quite a few have looked incredibly promising. Helps me find games I'd like without having to play them all first.

hey, i love this series, and have tried out a number of new games because of it -- games i might have never seen otherwise. looking forward to trying out UNSIGHTED in particular, from this one. keep up the great work! happy new year!

I like how most souls-like related games are usually incomplete indie games.

I love that Unsighted has a way to turn off the character timing. Even though its the main gimmick, it gives players a chance to experience this great game without all that stress

I love these videos man. I had fallen behind by a few, but I caught up today. I hope you had a great new year, keep doing what you do in 2022!!!

Been watching from the first "8 Souls Likes" video you made and honestly your content is extremely entertaining and somewhat heartfelt(?) at points. Keep up the amazing work, bud. Happy Holidays!

I kinda like hearing keyboard and mouse noises. Adds authenticity especially in Demo videos!

for those who like Vincent van Gogh, there's also a movie called "Loving Vincent," that has every frame of the film painted in his style, so it's a animated painting-movie

Haven't checked out your videos for a while and I feel like I missed out. This was great, I love your positive attitude and how you managed to give thorough reviews of so many games in just 24 minutes. Definetly gonna try out the second and third of the titles! Oh, and I subscribed, cheers!

I just found out about your channel and I'm really loving it, your videos are such a joy to watch! Your personality and commentary are funny and a pleasure to watch, while still giving amazing game reviews. Keep up the good work!

Every once and a while i binge watch all the "souls-like" games videos you made. They are so much fun to watch haha!

Honestly, these videos have shown me actually cool games when everything that comes out lately has just been lackluster. Enchain and Unsighted are the two games that I'm very interested in now. So thank you so much for making these videos :)

Loving your vids dude. Just discovered u through your Elder Ring review vid and im loving your content so far. Really enjoy your vibe, the editting style and your banter. So please keep it up, i know i'll be watchin. Thanks for the effort and the content bro.

13:14 well Van Gogh gone nuts, if i remember right, it's interesting they depicted it in that way.