Dark Souls II and III's servers are down

The message stones have gone quiet. On 30 October 2026, FromSoftware's player support account posted an announcement on X. The company said it had found a problem with the game servers of Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III and had shut the servers down on all platforms. It did not say what the problem was. The company apologised and said it would post a separate announcement once the timetable for the servers' return was clear. As of 1 November, there is no word that the servers are back up.

The single-player game can be played offline. What has gone dark is the online side of the games: co-op, invasions (barging uninvited into another player's world), summon signs and the messages left on the ground.

Two days earlier, on 28 October, the official Dark Souls account had announced scheduled maintenance for Dark Souls II. Whether the two are connected is not known. There is talk going around of a security hole, but that is a guess by players and some writers. FromSoftware said no such thing.

Still, you can't help thinking of 2022. In January of that year, only the PC servers were shut down, because of a remote code execution exploit. Dark Souls III came back in August, Scholar of the First Sin in October. This time every platform is down. Nobody is in the mood to wait another nine months.