Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 Online Play Returns After Nearly Two Weeks

Online multiplayer is back for Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3. Developer FromSoftware had switched it off for nearly two weeks, and Eurogamer reported the return on 12 November 2026.

FromSoftware temporarily disabled multiplayer for both games on 30 October 2026, citing a server issue. Servers are the computers that link players to one another, so without them players could not join each other's games or call on help from other players. Single-player play was not part of the shutdown, but the online features that make these games social were offline for the whole period.

In a statement on its Japanese news page, FromSoftware said its investigation into the suspension is complete. A fix has been applied, and game servers and online features are now restored.

The studio has been through this kind of shutdown before. In 2022, servers for all three Dark Souls games went offline because of a security weakness that allowed malicious code to run, which is software built to cause harm. Bringing the servers back then took about three months for some of the games and up to nine months for others.

This time the outage lasted nearly two weeks, and the servers for Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 came back at the same time. The 2022 shutdown covered three games. The 2026 suspension named two.

For players, the practical change is simple. Multiplayer features that were unavailable from late October are working again.