Dark Souls Remastered: Walkthrough & Boss Guide

This is a short route outline for Dark Souls: Remastered (released May 2018), checked against Wikipedia and the Fextralife wiki on 12 October 2026. It covers the main path and the bosses we could verify. Optional areas, NPC quests, item builds and exact numbers are not covered in detail; check a full wiki for those.

You start as a prisoner in the Northern Undead Asylum. Loot the corpse in your cell for the Dungeon Cell Key. On the first visit you can fight the Asylum Demon with only basic gear or run past him by the left stairwell. If you skip him, you can later reach the ledge above his arena and open the fight with a plunging attack, which removes a large part of his health. Defeating him gives the Big Pilgrim's Key (if you did not already receive it from Oscar of Astora), which opens the door he guards. At the top of the cliff beyond, interacting with the giant crow's nest triggers the cutscene that takes you to Lordran.

From the Undead Burg, a narrow castle wall road leads toward the Undead Parish. The Taurus Demon appears on the far tower when you cross about halfway. At the church in the Undead Parish, the Bell Gargoyles guard the rooftop path to one of the two Bells of Awakening. The Fextralife wiki calls this the Upper Bell. Ring it to continue.

The Lower Bell of Awakening is in Quelaag's Domain, beyond Blighttown. Chaos Witch Quelaag guards the way. The Rusted Iron Ring, found in the Northern Undead Asylum behind a locked door on the third level, removes the movement penalty in swamp, deep water and tar, which helps in Blighttown's swamp. Once both bells are rung, the Giant opens the gate to Sen's Fortress (the door at the bonfire above Blacksmith Andre in the Undead Parish).

Sen's Fortress has swinging pendulum blades, pressure-plate arrow traps, rolling boulders that kill on contact, Man-Serpent mages and a Firebomb Giant on the rooftops. Big Hat Logan is locked in a cage near the end of the cage room; the Master Key or the Cage Key opens it. The Iron Golem waits behind the fog gate at the top. After you defeat it, touching the glowing ring in the arena makes three bat-wing demons carry you to Anor Londo.

The cathedral of Anor Londo holds the dual boss Ornstein and Smough. Decide beforehand which one to kill first: the survivor absorbs the fallen partner, regains health and returns in a stronger “super” form. Pillars help block Ornstein's lightning and Smough's straight-line charge.

Darkroot Garden is entered by heading down from Blacksmith Andre in the Undead Parish, through the room with the Titanite Demon. Andre sells the Crest of Artorias for 20,000 souls; it opens the glowing lock next to the Garden's bonfire, which leads to the Forest Hunter's Woods (a shortcut that otherwise connects only to Darkroot Basin). Great Grey Wolf Sif guards Artorias's grave across a bridge; approaching the large greatsword in front of the tombstone starts the fight. Sif drops the Covenant of Artorias ring, which you need for the Four Kings. The Stone Knight armor set is in a chest across the bridge from Alvina.

To open the way to the Kiln of the First Flame you must bring the Lord Souls and Lord Soul shards to the Lordvessel at Firelink Altar. Other Lord Souls come from Gravelord Nito, Seath the Scaleless and the Bed of Chaos, which this outline does not cover in detail. The Four Kings are fought in the Abyss at the end of the New Londo Ruins, which you reach by the elevator down from Firelink Shrine. You must wear the Covenant of Artorias ring to enter the Abyss and keep it on during the whole fight.

To reach the DLC from Darkroot Basin you need the Broken Pendant. Rescue and speak to Dusk of Oolacile first; then the Crystal Golem at the entrance to the Duke's Archives drops the pendant. With the pendant, enter the vortex in the cave behind where the Hydra was in Darkroot Basin. A cutscene takes you back in time to Oolacile. The DLC was originally released in 2012 as part of Prepare to Die Edition. Its bosses and weapons are not covered here.

After returning all Lord Souls and shards to the Lordvessel, you can reach the Kiln of the First Flame, where you fight past five Black Knights before Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. As with the whole series, the story ends on the choice of reigniting the First Flame or letting it fade.