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On November 11, 2026, FromSoftware restored the game servers for DARK SOULS II and DARK SOULS III and brought online services back up. The fix covers every platform.
The outage began at 4:00 p.m. on October 30. The servers were taken down after a defect was discovered, and on November 2 it emerged that the issue was security-related, with no restoration date given at the time. For roughly 12 days after that, both co-op and PvP stayed cut off.
In other words, this announcement doubles as a declaration that the investigation and the fix are finished. Here is a timeline of what happened and what has come back.
When did online services come back?
November 11, 2026. FromSoftware’s official notice announced that, with the investigation and remediation complete, the game servers had been restored and online services resumed.
Now that our investigation and response have been completed, we have restored the game servers as of today and resumed online services. We offer our apologies to all users, along with our thanks for waiting through the restoration.
Source:DARK SOULS official site
The statement does not spell out the specifics of the cause. “A security-related defect” is as far as the public information goes, and anything beyond that remains undisclosed. Withholding the method is the obvious call on a security matter, and digging here is unlikely to turn anything up.
How did the outage and recovery unfold?
From the 4:00 p.m. shutdown on October 30 to the November 11 restoration, it took roughly 12 days. Laid out in order, it looks like this.
| Date | Development |
|---|---|
| October 30, 2026, 4:00 p.m. | Game servers taken offline after a defect was discovered |
| November 2, 2026 | Identified as a security-related defect; no restoration date announced |
| November 11, 2026 | Investigation and response complete; servers restored and online services resumed on all platforms |
What stands out is that as of November 2, the announcement said the restoration date was undetermined. Declining to name a date on a security issue means, conversely, that nobody rushed the servers back up. From discovery to shutdown to identifying the cause to completing the fix, the order in which information was released was careful.
Every platform is covered
Servers are back for both DARK SOULS II and DARK SOULS III across all platforms. No single system has been left behind.
What can you do again now?
Co-op and PvP. While the servers were down, the online elements were entirely unavailable, leaving both games effectively offline-only.
Online in the Souls series is more than a multiplayer feature. Other players’ messages, bloodstains, invasions, summons as a white phantom. That distinctive sense that someone died right here does not exist unless the servers are alive. Having that gone for 12 days meant part of the experience itself was missing.
…Honestly, booting up DARK SOULS III during the outage and staring at a bonfire with not a single message left beside it was a very particular kind of lonely. Good to have it back.
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Summary: restored on all platforms on November 11
The game servers for DARK SOULS II and DARK SOULS III were restored on November 11, 2026, and online services resumed on every platform. FromSoftware explained that the investigation and response had been completed.
The outage began at 4:00 p.m. on October 30 after a defect was discovered, was identified as a security-related defect on November 2, and then sat with no restoration date. The resumption came after roughly 12 days, and co-op and PvP are both possible again. The specific nature of the defect has not been disclosed.
No deadline was set on a security issue, and the servers reopened only once the cause had been dealt with. That call was correct. Twelve days was long, but it beats opening half-baked and having the whole thing recur. Putting both an apology and a thank-you into the restoration notice is a very FromSoftware kind of sincerity, too.
The messages are back at the bonfires. The Souls series is finally open for normal business again.
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