Update January 18, 2024: The price of the compendium has dropped 18% on Amazon, bringing it down to $47.19. If you already preordered the book, you don’t have to do anything — you’ll pay the lowest price it drops to between when you ordered it and when it ships.
Future Press will be releasing a ’25th Anniversary Edition’ of the Dark Souls Trilogy Compendium, featuring the complete breakdown of every single minute detail from the legendary FromSoftware games. It will cost $59.99, with preorders now available via Amazon (see here).
For clarity, this is the 25th anniversary of the first game guide published by Future Press, not the 25th anniversary of Dark Souls (which was released on September 22, 2011). The original Compendium book is out of print and can be difficult to find or buy at a reasonable rate, which makes news of this reprint very welcome indeed.
Future Press describes the limited edition reprint as featuring, “The enemies, items, equipment, areas and NPC dialogue of each game are all presented in an easy-to-reference format. This beautifully laid out book is designed to make it easy to find what you’re looking for—each entry is color-coded by game, and everything is fully indexed.”
This is also a strictly limited one-time reprint, featuring “unique 25th Anniversary branding and some slight changes to the slipcase and cover” but otherwise the re-release will be identical to the original Dark Souls Trilogy printing.
The reprint features 480 pages that dive into the core story beats of the Dark Souls games, alongside a complete World Guide for each title and its DLCs, and even four unique bonus art prints “that show the beauty of FromSoftware’s character designs”.
Future Press is also responsible for the beautiful Official Strategy Guides for Elden Ring (Vol.1 & Vol. 2), which are also currently down to $44.99 at Amazon. Those in the UK can also preorder the Dark Souls Trilogy 25th Anniversary Compendium from Amazon UK, costing £49.99 and releasing on March 31 as well (see here).
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