"My memories, my touch, please forget it all like a dream."
Black Souls is a JRPG series that uses a top-down perspective. Battles are governed by a turn-based system. The developer describes it as "tactical and tense ATB combat". The player can act when their action gauge fills up. In Black Souls I, once players recruit the heroines to their party, they can summon her during battle. To dodge incoming attacks, they can use the Avoid command. It consumes a low-cast energy. For Black Souls II, it consumes no energy but has a seventy percent success rate. Because players "could just spam skills with a high crit rate and beat almost every boss" in Black Souls I, Black Souls II introduced cooldowns and more enemies with resistances. The player can collect "souls" scattered throughout the world while exploring to enhance their abilities. Under an open-world map, bonfires act as checkpoints that fully restore health and enable fast travel between them.